November 12, 2012
The HPCwire awards were announced and presented during the 2012 Supercomputing Conference, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The annual awards are highly coveted as prestigious recognition of achievement by the HPC community. HPCwire extends its congratulations to this year’s winners.
Best use of HPC application in manufacturing
Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla GPUs with Dassault Systemes SIMULIA Abaqus Finite Element Analysis
Editor’s Choice:
Airbus using HPC-as-a-Service provided by Hewlett Packard
Best use of HPC in life sciences
Readers’ Choice:
The Julich Supercomputing Center using NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to uncover causes of/treatments for autism, Alzheimer’s, other neurological diseases
Editor’s Choice:
IBM Watson expert system for WellPoint Inc.
Best use of HPC in automotive
Readers’ Choice:
NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and Dassault Systemes SIMULIA Abaqus Finite Element Analysis solution
Editor’s Choice:
The Caterham F1 Team using Dell systems for the Caterham F1 Team racing design
Best use of HPC in financial services
Readers’ Choice:
Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) on NVIDIA Fermi GPUs using CUDA
Editor’s Choice:
NYSE Technologies “Community Cloud” in collaboration with EMC, Intel, and VMware.
Tied With:
Xcelerit for Quant Toolkit, SDK
Best use of HPC in the oil and gas industry
Readers’ Choice:
Petrobras Reverse Time Migration (RTM)
Editor’s Choice:
Schlumberger WesternGeco
Best use of HPC in the entertainment industry
Readers’ Choice:
Dreamworks Animation SKG and the US Council on Competitiveness for “Dreamworks Presents the Power of Supercomputing”
Editor’s Choice:
Dreamworks Animation SKG and the US Council on Competitiveness for “Dreamworks Presents the Power of Supercomputing”
Best use of HPC “in edge” HPC application
Readers’ Choice:
CURIE (powered by bullx) supercomputer, owned by GENCI for the first full universe simulation, Observatoire de Paris
Editor’s Choice:
Kalev H. Leetaru, University of Illinois Fellow, Graduate School of Library and Information Science with contributions from SGI for the historical mapping and exploration of Wikipedia
Best use of HPC in the cloud
Readers’ Choice:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Editor’s Choice:
Schrödinger and Cycle Computing on Amazon EC2 cluster for drug discovery
Best application of “green computing” in HPC
Readers’ Choice:
Oak Ridge National Laboratories’ Titan supercomputer, powered by Cray XK6
Editor’s Choice:
IBM Blue Gene/Q
Best HPC server product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Cray XE6 supercomputer
Editor’s Choice:
Intel “Sandy Bridge” Xeon CPUs
Best HPC storage product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
DataDirect Networks SFA 12K
Editor’s Choice:
The San Diego Supercomputer Center Data Oasis Storage System with contributions from Appro, Aeon Computing, Arista Networks, Globus Online and Intel Whamcloud
Best HPC software product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Adaptive Computing Moab HPC Suite 7.2
Editor’s Choice:
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 5.0
Best HPC visualization product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Adaptive Computing Moab HPC Suite and NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization (NICE DCV)
Editor’s Choice:
Kitware ParaView
Best application of Big Data in HPC
Readers’ Choice:
The Apache Software Foundation for Apache Hadoop
Editor’s Choice:
DARPA XDATA Program
Best HPC interconnect product or technology
Readers’ Choice:
Mellanox FDR Infiniband Solution and Connect-IB FDR Infiniband Adapter
Editor’s Choice:
Mellanox FDR Infiniband Solution and Connect-IB FDR Infiniband Adapter
Best HPC cluster solution or technology
Readers’ Choice:
DataDirect Networks SFA 12K
Editor’s Choice:
Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer
Best HPC collaboration between government and industry
Readers’ Choice:
The Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) Titan supercomputer in collaboration with the US Department of Energy, Cray, AMD, and NVIDIA
Editor’s Choice:
National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC) in collaboration with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, (NCMS) National Center for Supercomputer Applications, (NCSA) NASA, and the National Science Foundation, (NSF) US Department of Commerce, Departments of Defense and Energy, (DOD & DOE) US Council on Competitiveness, (COC) Ohio Supercomputer Center, Purdue University, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, John Deere, Procter & Gamble and Rosenboom.
Top supercomputing achievement
Readers’ Choice:
NASA Ames Pleiades supercomputer for the NASA Kepler Mission discovery of new planets in the Milky Way (with contributions from Intel and SGI)
Editor’s Choice:
The Deployment of IBM Blue Gene/Q “Sequoia” at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Top 5 new products or technologies to watch (in order of ranking)
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Top 5 vendors to watch (in order of ranking)
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