Results of the HPCwire Annual Readers’ Choice Awards Revealed at Supercomputing Conference (SC08) in Austin, TX

Awards Announced Based on Voting by HPCwire Readers and Editors Worldwide
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HPCwire (www.HPCwire.com), the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of high productivity computing, revealed the winners of HPCwire’s annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at the 20th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC08) in Austin, Texas.

HPCwire has designated two categories of Awards: (1) Readers’ Choice, where winners have been determined by a poll of HPCwire readers, and (2) Editors’ Choice, where winners have been determined by votes of a panel of recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from industry. These awards are widely recognized as prestigious recognition from the HPC community.

“Each year, HPCwire and its readers recognize the tremendous amount of innovation happening in the HPC industry as both individual and collaborative efforts push the boundaries of what’s possible,” said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. “It’s our great pleasure to take time each year to offer recognition to the leaders and luminaries in this industry. The community spirit that these awards represent is notable, as we look to our readers, our editors, and industry luminaries to make the determination on who is deserving of recognition for the year. The response this year has been tremendous, with a record amount of votes being cast. We are excited to reveal the winners of these prestigious and highly anticipated awards.”

The HPCwire 2008 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Best use of HPC application in manufacturing:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: The Boeing Company

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.

Best use of HPC in life sciences:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: National Institutes of Health

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: J. Craig Venter Institute

Best use of HPC in automotive:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Renault Formula One Team

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Ferrari Formula One Team

Best use of HPC in financial services:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Citadel Investment Group

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: TD Bank Financial Group — stream computing

Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Petroleum Geo-Services

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Fugro

Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Weta Digital

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Blender Institute

Best use of HPC in “edge HPC” application:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Reuters Market Data System

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Linden Lab’s Second Life Grid

Best HPC server product or technology:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: SGI Altix ICE 8200

Editors’ Choice Award Recipients: IBM BladeCenter QS22

Best HPC storage product or technology:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Panasas ActiveStor

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: DataDirect Networks S2A9900

Best price/performance visualization product or technology:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: SGI Remote Visualization

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Visual Analytics, National Visualization and Analytics Center

Best HPC software product or technology:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Interactive Supercomputing’s Star-P

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Windows HPC Server 2008

Best HPC interconnect product or technology:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Voltaire InfiniBand Switches

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Mellanox InfiniScale IV

Best HPC cluster solution or technology:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Rocks Cluster Distribution

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Intel Cluster Tools

Top supercomputing achievement:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire

Best HPC collaboration between government and industry:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, IBM, Panasas, Voltaire

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers — University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Microsoft, Intel

Top 5 new products or technologies to watch:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipients: AMD “Shanghai,” QDR InfiniBand, Intel Nehalem, NVIDIA CUDA/Tesla, ScaleMP vSMP Foundation

Editors’ Choice Award Recipients: HPC on-demand, pNFS, solid state drives, OpenCL, Intel Nehalem

Top 5 vendors to watch:

Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: IBM, Panasas, SGI, Voltaire, Cray

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Cray, Bull, Microsoft, Intel, Convey Computer

More about SC08

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