HPCwire Announces Results of the HPCwire Annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at SC07 in Reno, NV
RENO, Nev.--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 2007 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07) in Reno, Nevada.
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, contributing editors from the global HPC ecosystem, and HPCwire’s editors. These awards are widely recognized within the global HPC community and are among the most prestigious awards given to both vendors and user organizations.
"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 leaders 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 2007 Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
Most Innovative Implementation of an HPC Application in Manufacturing
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: The Boeing Company
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Pratt & Whitney
Most Innovative Use of HPC in Automotive
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Ferrari
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: BMW
Most Innovative Use of HPC in Life Sciences
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: National Resource for Biomedical
Supercomputing (NRBSC) / Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Boston Scientific
Most Innovative Use of HPC in Financial Services
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: BNP Paribas
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: III Offshore Advisors
Most Innovative Use of HPC in Oil & Gas
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Petroleum Geo-Services
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Shell Oil Company
Most Innovative Use of HPC in Entertainment
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Sony Pictures Imageworks
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: DreamWorks Animation
Best HPC Collaboration Between Government & Industry
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: LANL / IBM / AMD for Roadrunner
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: DOE INCITE Program
Best Price/Performance HPC Hardware Solution
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Rackable Systems
Editors' Choice Award Recipients: AMD Quad-Core Opteron
Best Price/Performance HPC Storage Technology or Product
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Panasas ActiveStor
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Sun Fire x4500 Server
Best Price/Performance Visualization Product of Technology
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: HP Scalable Visualization Array
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: HP's Parallel Compositing
Library
Best Price/Performance HPC Software Product
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Mercury Multicore Plus SDK for
PS3
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Interactive Supercomputing's
Star-P
Best Price/Performance HPC Networking Product or Technology
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Voltaire
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Mellanox ConnectX
Most Important HPC Networking Product or Technology
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Cisco
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Woven Systems Ethernet Fabric
Switch
Best Price / Performance HPC Cluster Solution
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Voltaire
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Dell PowerEdge Servers
Most Significant New HPC Hardware Product
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: IBM Blue Gene/P
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: NVIDIA Tesla
Most Innovative HPC Storage Technology of Product
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: PSC ZEST
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Panasas Tiered Parity
Most Significant New HPC Software Product
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: NVIDIA CUDA
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: RapidMind Development Platform
Most Innovative HPC Visualization Product or Technology
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: CEI EnSight
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Mercury Computer Systems
OpenRTRT
Most Innovative HPC Cluster Solution
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: SGI Altix
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: SiCortex
HPC Public Awareness Award
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: TeraGrid
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
HPC Community Recognition Award
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Dr. Eng Lim Goh (SGI)
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Dan Reed (RENCI)
Top HPC Vendor for 2007
Readers' Choice Award Recipient: IBM
Editors' Choice Award Recipient: IBM
Top Five Companies to Watch in 2008
Editors' Choice Award Recipients: Intel; Microsoft; NVIDIA;
RapidMind; Sun Microsystems
More about SC07
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