Winners Announced for HPCwire Choice Awards

HPCwire, the publication of record for high performance computing, has announced the winners of the 2004 Reader's Choice Awards. The second annual polling of the HPCwire's global readership produced the winners of The Reader's Choice Awards, and the world class collection of contributing editors selected the winners for The Editor's Choice Awards.

The awards will be presented to the executives leading these prestigious firms at the SuperComputing 04 (SC04) Conference and Exhibition being held in Pittsburgh, PA. The award ceremony will be at the HPCwire booth (921) on the trade show floor during the Gala Evening on November 8, 2004 beginning at 7pm and running until the show closes at 9pm.

Following is the list of winners of the HPCwire 2004 Reader's Choice Award:

Most Important Emerging Technology: Cray - Red Storm
Most Important Software Innovation: NPACI - Rocks
Most Innovative HPC Technology: Cray - Red Storm
Most Innovative Implementation: PSC - Red Storm
Most Innovative - Storage Technology: Panasas (tie)
Most Innovative ? Storage Technology: SGI (tie)
Greatest Price Performance ? Storage: HP
Most Innovative ? Hardware Technology: Cray
Greatest Price Performance - Hardware: SGI
Most Innovative - Software: NPACI - Rocks
Greatest Price Performance ? Software: Pathscale
Most Innovative - Visualization: SGI
Greatest Price Performance ? Visualization: AMD
Most Innovative ? Networking: Myricom (tie)
Most Innovative ? Networking: Mellanox (tie)
Greatest Price Performance - Networking: Intel
Most Innovative - Cluster Technology: Linux Networx
Greatest Price Performance ? Cluster: Dell
Best Collaboration Government And Industry: ORNL & Cray

Following is the list of winners of the HPCwire 2004 Editor's Choice Award:

Most Important Emerging Technology: Cray - Red Storm
Most Important Software Innovation: NPACI - Rocks
Most Innovative HPC Technology: Cray - Red Storm
Most Innovative Implementation: NASA/Intel/SGI
Most Innovative - Storage Technology: EMC
Greatest Price Performance ? Storage: Sun (tie)
Greatest Price Performance ? Storage: Data Direct (tie)
Most Innovative ? Hardware Technology: SGI
Greatest Price Performance - Hardware: IBM (tie)
Greatest Price Performance - Hardware: NEC (tie)
Most Innovative - Software: MSC Software
Greatest Price Performance ? Software: The Portland Group
Most Innovative - Visualization: SGI
Greatest Price Performance ? Visualization: SGI (tie)
Greatest Price Performance ? Visualization: Sun (tie)
Most Innovative ? Networking: Quadrics
Greatest Price Performance - Networking: Juniper
Most Innovative - Cluster Technology: Linux Networx
Greatest Price Performance ? Cluster: Linux Networx
Best Collaboration Government And Industry: NASA/Intel/SGI

All winners will be formally presented with their Reader's and Editor's Choice awards on the SC04 show floor, and details of their technologies will be subsequently covered by either LIVEwire, HPCwire's annual 3-edition breaking- news special distributed electronically during the event itself, or in regular editions of HPCwire.

The Awards will be presented by Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire. Don't miss the excitement; make HPCwire (http://www.hpcwire.com) your source of SC2004 news!