November 18, 2013
The HPCwire awards were announced and presented during the 2013 Supercomputing Conference, held in Denver, Colorado. The annual awards are highly coveted as prestigious recognition of achievement by the HPC community. HPCwire extends its congratulations to this year’s winners.
Best use of HPC application in manufacturing
Readers’ Choice:
HLRS Stuttgart and DataDirect Networks ASCS for Large Scale Problem Resolution
Editor’s Choice:
GE Research using Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray “Titan” for Industrial Cold Temperature Research Projects
Best use of HPC in life sciences
Readers’ Choice:
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and SGI “Blacklight” for Next Generation Sequencing Assembly
Editor’s Choice:
NCSA “Blue Waters” with Cray technologies and NVIDIA GPUs to achieve breakthroughs in HIV CAPSID Research
Best use of HPC in automotive
Readers’ Choice:
Infiniti Red Bull Racing using IBM Platform Computing GPFS Systems for Formula One Racing Design
Editor’s Choice:
Ford Motor Company and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Cray “Jaguar” for automotive research to boost airflow and increase fuel efficiency
Best use of HPC in financial services
Readers’ Choice:
PayPal and SGI, Mellanox, and DataDirect Networks technologies for fraud detection and prevention during PayPal transactions
Editor’s Choice: (2 winners)
* XSEDE PSC SGI “Blacklight” and SDSC Cray “Gordon” Research enables faster market analysis and imposes stricter regulation of stock market trading
* Xcelerit SDK and NVIDIA Tesla GPUs power accelerated risk analysis for HSBC
Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry
Readers’ Choice:
TOTAL using SGI “Pangea” for oil and gas exploration
Editor’s Choice:
British Petroleum’s CHPC Petascale system using HP, Intel, and DataDirect Networks technologies to solve the world’s biggest energy challenges
Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry
Readers’ Choice:
Pixar Animation Studio’s Lighting Tool with NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine
Editor’s Choice:
Pixar Animation Studio’s Lighting Tool with NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine
Best use of HPC “in edge” HPC application
Readers’ Choice:
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, University of Notre Dame, and VecNet CI for cutting edge, complex disease modeling
Editor’s Choice:
Dwave for Commercial Quantum Computing
Best use of HPC in the cloud
Readers’ Choice:
The UberCloud HPC Project and the Compendium of Case Studies
Editor’s Choice:
Cycle Computing “CycleCloud”, Amazon EC2 and Opscode Chef 11 Server for breakthroughs in cancer research
Best application of “green computing” in HPC
Readers’ Choice:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM “Sequoia” the world’s most energy efficient supercomputer
Editor’s Choice:
DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory Asetek RackCDU and Aspen Systems for retrofitting its Skynet HPC cluster
Best HPC server product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Intel Xeon Processor
Editor’s Choice:
Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor
Best HPC storage product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
DataDirect Network SFA7700 Hybrid Flash Storage Appliance
Editor’s Choice:
SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Platform and Programming Model
Editor’s Choice:
OpenACC Specification 2.0
Best HPC visualization product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Bull ExtremeFactory Remote Visualizer 3D Streaming Technology
Editor’s Choice:
Bull ExtremeFactory Remote Visualizer 3D Streaming Technology
Best application of Big Data in HPC
Readers’ Choice:
GENCI CURIE for DEUS
(Dark Energy Universe Simulation) project
Editor’s Choice:
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Cray YarcData Urika “Sherlock” to unlock the secrets of Big Data
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Mellanox InfiniScale IV is5030 36-Port QDR Infiniband Switch
Editor’s Choice:
Mellanox MetroX Technology
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputer
Editor’s Choice:
Cray CS300 Cluster Supercomputer
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers’ Choice:
Ford Motor Company and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cray “Jaguar” with DataDirect Networks technology for CAE and CFD simulation
Editor’s Choice:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM “Vulcan” Deployment of HPC technologies to boost US economic competitiveness
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers’ Choice:
Total and SGI “Pangea” the World’s Largest Commercial HPC Deployment
Editor’s Choice:
NSF Texas Advanced Computing Center “Stampede” Comprehensive Petascale Science Environment with technology partners Dell, Intel, DataDirect Networks, Mellanox, and NVIDIA
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch (in order of ranking)
Readers’ Choice:
(1) Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors; (2) NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA; (3) OpenACC; (4) IBM FlashSystem; (5) Mellanox Connect-IB 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand HC
Editor’s Choice:
(1) D-Wave Quantum Computing Technology; (2) NVIDIA and Mellanox for RDMA Developments; (3) OpenACC; (4) IBM NextScale; (5) Spectra Logic Black Pearl
Top 5 vendors to watch (in order of ranking)
Readers’ Choice:
(1) Intel; (2) NVIDIA; (3) Cray; (4) IBM; (5) Mellanox
Editor’s Choice:
(1) SGI; (2) Calxeda; (3) Univa; (4) Xyratex; (5) Cray