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 ap

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