HPCwire Reveals Winners of the 2020 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC20’s Virtual Conference

November 16, 2020

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 16, 2020 — HPCwire, the leading publication for news and information for the high performance computing industry, announced the winners of the 17th annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards during the Supercomputing Conference (SC20) taking place this week. Awards presentations and acceptance videos can be seen here.

Symbolic of overwhelming support and continued success, the awards serve as a pillar of recognition that acknowledge major projects, achievements, outstanding leadership and innovative breakthroughs. We are proud of and grateful for the participation from our readers across the globe who truly engaged this year and made their voices and choices heard. Making it to the ballot has become increasingly more competitive and always signifies an honorable, valuable contribution to our HPC community, to progress and to humankind.

“Each year we look forward to connecting with our HPC friends and peers to support exceptional industry innovation at SC. While it saddens us that we cannot physically be with one another, we take great pride in bringing the HPC community together through our digital Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards,” said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire. “This pandemic has brought us together in ways we never thought possible. The various collaborations, innovative research, and unexpected developments have not gone unnoticed during the challenges of the past year. We congratulate and honor those who have exceeded expectations and have truly excelled despite the difficulties and strain presented by the virus. Our congratulations to all the nominees and the winners. We hope to see you all at the virtual Readers’ Choice Awards Party and hopefully, next year, in person to celebrate!”

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 given by the HPC community to its own each year.

 

Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences

Readers’ Choice: ORNL using Summit supercomputer

Editors’ Choice: Researchers at St. Jude using DDN and Nvidia

 

Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences

Readers’ Choice: ECMWF working with ORNL on Summit

Editors’ Choice: NCSA-led team using PSC’s Bridges system and TACC’s Stampede2 system – both XSEDE-allocated resources

 

Best Use of HPC in Response to Societal Plights (COVID-19 focused research/programs)

Readers’ Choice:  Folding@Home’s marshalling of volunteer computing resources

Editors’ Choice (tie): 

AMD-led COVID-19 HPC Fund

RIKEN’s early launch of Fugaku supercomputer

 

Best Use of HPC in Energy

Readers’ Choice:  ANL using Theta

Editors’ Choice: Researchers from Georgia Tech and the Hanoi University of Science and Technology using SDSC’s Comet system, TACC’s Stampede2 system -both XSEDE-allocated resources

 

Best Use of HPC in Industry (Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Chemical, etc.)

Readers’ Choice: Aramco Research Center, ANL, and Convergent Science researchers using Theta

Editors’ Choice: Covestro AG with Lenovo and Nvidia

 

Best Use of HPC in Financial Services

Readers’ Choice: Penguin Computing

Editors’ Choice: Moody’s using Microsoft Azure

 

Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

Readers’ Choice:  University of Birmingham with IBM

Editors’ Choice: Carnegie Mellon researchers working on Bridges and Bridges AI

 

Best HPC Storage Product or Technology

Readers’ Choice:  Intel DAOS with Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 Servers

Editors’ Choice: DDN EXAScaler

 

Best AI Product or Technology

Readers’ and Editors’ Choice: Nvidia DGX A100

 

Best Use of HPC in the Cloud (Use Case)

Readers’ Choice: Harvard Medical School on Google Cloud

Editors’ Choice: Researchers from IceCube Neutrino Observatory with SDSC and Open Science Grid

 

Best HPC Cloud Platform

Readers’ Choice:  Amazon Web Services

Editors’ Choice:  Microsoft Azure Cloud

 

Best HPC Server Product or Technology

Readers’ Choice: NVIDIA A100 GPU

Editors’ Choice: AMD 2nd Gen EPYC “Rome” processors

 

Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology

Readers’ Choice: Singularity

Editors’ Choice: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

 

Best HPC Interconnect Product or Technology

Readers’ Choice and Editors’ Choice: NVIDIA Mellanox HDR 200G InfiniBand

 

Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry)

Readers’ Choice: NHS organizations, UK public health agencies, Wellcome Sanger Institute (and other partners forming the Genomics UK Consortium) using DDN, CLIMB, Birmingham & Cardiff University in partnership with Dell, Lenovo

Editors’ Choice:  COVID-19 HPC Consortium created by the DOE and IBM

 

Top Energy-Efficient HPC Achievement

Readers’ Choice: LRZ introduced “Wintermute”

Editors’ Choice: Sandia National Laboratories

 

Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement

Readers’ Choice: A research team led by Australian National University using SuperMUC-NG at LRZ

Editors’ Choice: A team at ORNL using Summit supercomputer

 

Top Supercomputing Achievement

Readers’ Choice:  NVIDIA Selene Supercomputer

Editors’ Choice:  Supercomputer Fugaku, a joint project of Riken, Fujitsu, and Arm

 

Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch

Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA A100 “Ampere” GPU

AMD 2nd Gen EPYC “Rome” processors

NVIDIA HPC SDK

MemVerge Big Memory

BeeGFS 

Editors’ Choice:
NVIDIA A100 “Ampere” GPU

AMD 2nd Gen EPYC “Rome” processors

Fujitsu A64FX Arm processors

Cerebras CS-1 system

DAOS with Intel Optane Persistent Memory

 

Top 5 Vendors to Watch

Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA

AMD

Intel

Arm

Lenovo

Editors’ Choice:
NVIDIA

AMD

Intel

HPE

Google Cloud

 

Workforce Diversity Leadership Award

Readers’ Choice (tie):

The National Center for Women & Information Technology

And

STEM-Trek

Editors’ Choice: Berkeley Lab’s IDEA program

 

Outstanding Leadership in HPC

Readers’ Choice:  Mateo Valero

Editors’ Choice:  Yutaka Ishikawa & Satoshi Matsuoka

 

More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website at https://tci.taborcommunications.com/HPCwire_Readers_Choice_Awards_2020 and on Twitter through the hashtag: #HPCwireAwards.

About HPCwire

HPCwire is the #1 news and information resource covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy of world-class editorial and journalism dating back to 1987, HPCwire is the news source of choice for science, technology and business professionals interested in high performance and data-intensive computing. Visit HPCwire at www.hpcwire.com.

About Tabor Communications Inc.

Tabor Communications Inc. (TCI) is a media and services company dedicated to high-end, performance computing. As publisher of a complete advanced scale computing portfolio that includes HPCwire, Datanami, EnterpriseAI, and HPCwire Japan, TCI is the market-leader in online journalism covering emerging technologies within the high-tech industry, and a services company providing events, audience insights, and other services for companies engaged in performance computing in enterprise, government, and research. More information can be found at www.taborcommunications.com.


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