2009 Annual HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards
Every year at the Supercomputing Conference, HPCwire announces their Annual Readers and Editors Choice Awards. This year was no exception as two new categories were introduced - HPC in the Cloud, and Green Computing. Awards were also given for HPC applications in life sciences, manufacturing and financial services, as well as for HPC storage, visualization, interconnects and more. Here's the final list of the 2009 award recipients.
San Diego, CA, November 19, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Results of the HPCwire Annual Readers’ Choice Awards Revealed at Supercomputing Conference (SC09) in Portland, OR
Awards Announced Based on Voting by HPCwire Readers and Editors Worldwide
HPCwire (www.HPCwire.com), the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of high performance computing, revealed the winners of HPCwire’s annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at the 22nd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC09) in Portland, Oregon. Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPCwire, revealed the list of winners at the HPCwire booth during the opening gala on Monday night.
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 and are available online at:
http://www.hpcwire.com/specialfeatures/sc09/readerschoiceawards/2009_Annual_HPCwire_Readers_Choice_Awards.html.
"This award, which represents a partnership between the HPCwire global readership and our publishing team, is a salute from the global HPC community," said Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPCwire. "It’s our great pleasure to take time each year to offer recognition to the leaders and luminaries in this industry. An organization being selected as an award recipient means that they are at the top of mind of HPCwire readers, editors, and luminaries in the field. The response to our survey an online polling has been strong as ever. I’d like to offer a well-earned congratulations to all the recipients of our 2009 awards.”
The HPCwire 2009 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
Best Application of "Green Computing" in HPC
Readers' Choice: Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Laboratory
Editor's Choice: IBM QS22 BladeCenter at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
Best HPC server product or technology
Readers' Choice: SGI Altix ICE
Editor's Choice: Bull “bullx”
Best HPC storage product or technology
Readers' Choice: BlueArc Titan Architecture
Editor's Choice: DataDirect Networks SFA 10000
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers' Choice: PGI Accelerator Compilers
Editor's Choice: NVIDIA CUDA
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers' Choice: Arista Networks 7100 Switches
Editor's Choice: Mellanox ConnectX Technology
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers' Choice: HP Cluster Platform 3000
Editor's Choice: Cray CX1
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers' Choice: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - Pandemic Modeling for H1N1 Influenza for NIH MIDAS Project
Editor's Choice: Jaguar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers' Choice: U.S. Department of Energy INCITE Program 2009
Editor's Choice: "Hyperion" Project: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with Dell, Intel, Supermicro, QLogic, Cisco, Mellanox, DataDirect Networks, Sun Microsystems, LSI and RedHat
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch
Readers' Choice:
Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE
Intel “Larrabee”
Bull “bullx” supercomputer
NVIDIA “Fermi” GPU
AMD “Istanbul”
Editor's Choice:
ScaleMP vSMP
HPC cloud technologies
NVIDIA “Fermi” GPU
Flash memory storage
OpenCL (The Khronos Group)
Top 5 vendors to watch
Readers' Choice:
SGI
Cray Inc.
IBM
Sun Microsystems
Dell
Editor's Choice:
Microsoft Corp.
SGI
NVIDIA Corp.
Convey Computer Corporation
Sun Microsystems
More about SC09
SC09 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, showcasing how high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in research, education and commerce. ACM and the IEEE Computer Society are the SCxy conference series sponsors. For more information, please visit http://sc09.supercomputing.org.
About HPCwire
HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Performance Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. Through news, analysis and information, HPCwire facilitates in unifying the global HPC community. HPCwire can be found online at http://www.HPCwire.com.
About Tabor Communications, Inc.
Tabor Communications, Inc. is a leading international media, research, market intelligence, and communications company providing strategy, information and solutions for High Productivity Communities. Tabor Communications can be found at http://www.taborcommunications.com.
For more information, contact:
Isaac Lopez
Marketing Director
ilopez@taborcommunications.com
(360) 576-5475
###
Awards Announced Based on Voting by HPCwire Readers and Editors Worldwide
HPCwire (www.HPCwire.com), the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of high performance computing, revealed the winners of HPCwire’s annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at the 22nd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC09) in Portland, Oregon. Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPCwire, revealed the list of winners at the HPCwire booth during the opening gala on Monday night.
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 and are available online at:
http://www.hpcwire.com/specialfeatures/sc09/readerschoiceawards/2009_Annual_HPCwire_Readers_Choice_Awards.html.
"This award, which represents a partnership between the HPCwire global readership and our publishing team, is a salute from the global HPC community," said Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPCwire. "It’s our great pleasure to take time each year to offer recognition to the leaders and luminaries in this industry. An organization being selected as an award recipient means that they are at the top of mind of HPCwire readers, editors, and luminaries in the field. The response to our survey an online polling has been strong as ever. I’d like to offer a well-earned congratulations to all the recipients of our 2009 awards.”
The HPCwire 2009 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
Best Application of "Green Computing" in HPC
Readers' Choice: Blue Gene/P at Argonne National Laboratory
Editor's Choice: IBM QS22 BladeCenter at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics
Best HPC server product or technology
Readers' Choice: SGI Altix ICE
Editor's Choice: Bull “bullx”
Best HPC storage product or technology
Readers' Choice: BlueArc Titan Architecture
Editor's Choice: DataDirect Networks SFA 10000
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers' Choice: PGI Accelerator Compilers
Editor's Choice: NVIDIA CUDA
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers' Choice: Arista Networks 7100 Switches
Editor's Choice: Mellanox ConnectX Technology
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers' Choice: HP Cluster Platform 3000
Editor's Choice: Cray CX1
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers' Choice: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center - Pandemic Modeling for H1N1 Influenza for NIH MIDAS Project
Editor's Choice: Jaguar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers' Choice: U.S. Department of Energy INCITE Program 2009
Editor's Choice: "Hyperion" Project: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with Dell, Intel, Supermicro, QLogic, Cisco, Mellanox, DataDirect Networks, Sun Microsystems, LSI and RedHat
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch
Readers' Choice:
Chelsio Unified Wire 10GbE
Intel “Larrabee”
Bull “bullx” supercomputer
NVIDIA “Fermi” GPU
AMD “Istanbul”
Editor's Choice:
ScaleMP vSMP
HPC cloud technologies
NVIDIA “Fermi” GPU
Flash memory storage
OpenCL (The Khronos Group)
Top 5 vendors to watch
Readers' Choice:
SGI
Cray Inc.
IBM
Sun Microsystems
Dell
Editor's Choice:
Microsoft Corp.
SGI
NVIDIA Corp.
Convey Computer Corporation
Sun Microsystems
More about SC09
SC09 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, showcasing how high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in research, education and commerce. ACM and the IEEE Computer Society are the SCxy conference series sponsors. For more information, please visit http://sc09.supercomputing.org.
About HPCwire
HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Performance Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. Through news, analysis and information, HPCwire facilitates in unifying the global HPC community. HPCwire can be found online at http://www.HPCwire.com.
About Tabor Communications, Inc.
Tabor Communications, Inc. is a leading international media, research, market intelligence, and communications company providing strategy, information and solutions for High Productivity Communities. Tabor Communications can be found at http://www.taborcommunications.com.
For more information, contact:
Isaac Lopez
Marketing Director
ilopez@taborcommunications.com
(360) 576-5475
###
Contact
HPCwire.com
Deb Walsh
858-625-0070
www.HPCwire.com
Deb Walsh
858-625-0070
www.HPCwire.com
Contact
Categories