24 organizations honored for high productivity computing technology leadership

RENO, Nev., Nov. 12 -- HPCwire, 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, Nev.

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 Recepient: 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

About SC07

SC07 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 SC07 conference series sponsors. For more information, visit http://sc07.supercomputing.org.

About HPCwire

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