DENVER, Nov. 13, 2017 – HPCwire, the leading publication for news and information for the high performance computing industry, announced the winners of the 2017 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at the Supercomputing Conference (SC17) taking place this week in Denver, CO. Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications Inc., unveiled the list of winners just before the opening gala reception.
“HPCwire’s readership is broadly diversified; it includes industry leaders from the private sector, innovators in academia, and end users that are bringing HPC to the enterprise,” said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire. “Being selected to win either a Readers’ or Editors’ Choice Award is no small feat. This success signifies support and recognition from the HPC community along with the industries it serves. It is both an honor and privilege to once again engage with our readership and allow their voices to be heard. We extend a sincere thank you to our readers for their nominations and votes and a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s winners.”
HPCwire has designated two categories of Awards: (1) Readers’ Choice, where winners have been determined through election by HPCwire readers, and (2) Editors’ Choice, where winners have been selected by a panel of HPCwire editors and thought leaders in HPC. The process started with an open nomination process, with voting taking place throughout the month of September. These awards are widely recognized as being among the most prestigious recognition given by the HPC community to its own each year.
The 2017 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Award winners are:
Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences
Readers’ Choice: A team from Cardiff, Swansea, Warwick and Birmingham Universities conduct real-time analysis of Zika genomes using CLIMB cloud computing, supported by Lenovo, OpenStack, IBM, Red Hat and Dell EMC
Editors’ Choice: UCSD Department of Pharmacology, SDSC & PSC identified structural changes activating the gene-splicing technology, CRISPR-Cas9
Best Use of HPC in Physical Science
Readers’ Choice: NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) with Ames Research Center performed first-ever simulations using StellarBox to simulate surface dynamics
Editors’ Choice: SEAS team at Univ. of Illinois using NCSA’s Blue Waters produced the first accurate high-resolution digital elevation data/maps for entire Arctic
Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing
Readers’ Choice: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) with RIKEN AICS clarify long-standing issues and advance development of next-generation batteries
Editors’ Choice: HPC4Mfg project by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s NERSC helps paper companies cut costs by 10-20% through simulations
Best Use of HPC in Energy
Readers’ Choice: PSC and Texas A&M use OpenFOAM on PSC Bridges & TACC’s Stampede to better understand coolant & heat transfer in high temperature jet reactors
Editors’ Choice: Carnegie Clean Energy & Univ. of Western Australia with Pawsey Supercomputing Center and Cray capture & convert ocean wave energy
Best Use of HPC in Automotive
Readers’ Choice: Exa PowerFLOW 5.4 ensures vehicle performance by helping engineers understand effects of variable road conditions on vehicle performance, fuel efficiency & range
Editors’ Choice: Sauber Formula One using HPE HPC solutions to lower overall IT operating expenses while improving business
Best Use of HPC in Financial Services
Readers’ Choice: Solarflare cuts electronic trading latency by 10X to 20-30 nanoseconds using its proprietary TCPDirect zero-copy API
Editors’ Choice: Large financial services company significantly improves and modernizes analytics environment using a DDN solution for SAS Grid
Best Use of HPC in Entertainment
Readers’ Choice: Disney uses of Intel Xeon-based servers & Red Hat Linux EL7 to produce Zootopia
Editors’ Choice: LucasFilm & Industrial Light Magic developed MaterialX library for computer graphics & used MaterialX when making ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’
Best Use of HPC in the Cloud
Readers’ Choice: Boom Supersonic uses Rescale’s ScaleX cloud HPC platform and NASA simulation tools to design supersonic passenger jet
Editors’ Choice: UberCloud with representatives from Stanford University, Dassault/SIMULIA, Advania, Intel and HPE contributing to the Living Heart Project
Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics
Readers’ Choice: Vestas optimized wind turbines using Lenovo NextScale and TIBCO Spotfire to reduce its “Loss Prevention Factor”
Editors’ Choice: PSC’s Bridges facilitates assembly and analysis of large-scale genomics data
Best Use of AI
Readers’ Choice (TIE): Using SDSC’s Comet supercomputer, SUNY Downstate researchers lead the development of realistic “biomimetic neuroprosthetics”
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CMU School of Computer Science “Libratus” AI on PSC’s “Bridges” wins Brains vs. AI competition
Editors’ Choice: CANcer Distributed Learning Environment (CANDLE) leverages the Cray “Theta” XC40 system to develop and use deep learning tools to accelerate cancer research (ANL, LANL, LLNL, NIH/NCI, ORNL)
Top Energy-Efficient HPC Achievement
Readers’ Choice: NASA saves energy and water with new modular supercomputing facility
Editors’ Choice: TSUBAME 3.0 and Tokyo Institute of Technology establish new record for supercomputing energy efficiency and top the Green500 List
Best HPC Server Product or Technology
Readers’ Choice (TIE): HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 System
And
Lenovo SD530
Editors’ Choice: Cray XC50 Supercomputer
Best HPC in the Cloud Platform
Readers’ Choice: Microsoft Azure Big Compute Infrastructure
Editors’ Choice (TIE): Microsoft Azure Big Compute Infrastructure
And
Penguin Computing on Demand
Best HPC Storage Product or Technology
Readers’ Choice: Lenovo Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale (DSS-G)
Editors’ Choice: DDN’s Infinite Memory Engine (IME)
Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology
Readers’ Choice: Singularity HPC-optimized container solution for Linux
Editors’ Choice: Intel Parallel Tools
Best HPC Visualization Product or Technology
Readers’ Choice: NASA Hyperwall Visualization Tool for exploring petascale ocean circulation data
Editors’ Choice: NVIDIA IndeX
Best HPC Interconnect Product or Technology
Readers’ Choice (TIE): Intel Omni-Path Architecture
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Mellanox 200Gb/s HDR InfiniBand
Editors’ Choice: NVIDIA NVLink
Best HPC Cluster Solution or Technology
Readers’ Choice: Slurm
Editors’ Choice: IBM Spectrum LSF Suites
Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry)
Readers’ Choice: A team from Cardiff, Swansea, Warwick and Birmingham Universities conduct real-time analysis of Zika genomes using CLIMB cloud computing, supported by Lenovo, OpenStack, IBM, Red Hat and Dell EMC
Editors’ Choice: European R&D project Mont-Blanc investigates a new type of energy-efficient computer architecture for HPC, leveraging Cavium’s ThunderX2 Arm-based processors
Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement
Readers’ Choice: Predictive Science & NASA for prediction of the corona for the Aug. 21, 2017 total solar eclipse
Editor’s Choice: Scientists from University of Montréal, CEA, CNRS, University Paris-Diderot and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics simulated for the first time the Sun’s magnetic 11-year cycle using Compute Canada, GENCI, & PRACE HPC resources
Top Supercomputing Achievement
Readers’ Choice: HPE and NASA deploy first commodity HPC system into space
Editors’ Choice: NCSA’s Dr. Seid Koric & Dr. Anshul Gupta from IBM TJ Watson Research Center demonstrated for the first time that multifrontal sparse factorization algorithm with hybrid parallelization can scale efficiently in today’s large-scale supercomputers
Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch
Readers’ Choice: NVIDIA Volta
Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand
Intel Omni-Path Architecture
Intel & Micron’s 3D XPoint Memory
AMD EPYC
Editors’ Choice: Bull Sequana X1310, with Cavium’s ThunderX2 Arm-based processors
Singularity
Intel “Ruler” form factor for Intel SSDs
AMD EPYC
NVIDIA Volta
Top 5 Vendors to Watch
Readers’ Choice: NVIDIA
Intel
AMD
Mellanox Technologies
Cray
Editors’ Choice: HPE
AMD
NVIDIA
Intel
IBM
Workforce Diversity Leadership Award
Readers’ Choice: Women in HPC (WHPC)
Editors’ Choice: STEM-Trek
Outstanding Leadership in HPC
Readers’ Choice: Dr. Nick Nystrom
Editors’ Choice: Prof. Dr. Anwar Osseyran
More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website at https://www.hpcwire.com/2016-hpcwire-awards-readers-editors-choice/, or on Twitter through the following hashtag: #HPCwireAwards.
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