2009 Annual HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards

(I-Newswire) November 17, 2009 - The HPCwire 2009 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
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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

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