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Reno, NV, Nov. 12, 2007 - IBM was voted top supercomputer vendor and the company's Blue Gene/P system was voted most significant new hardware product in the annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the 2007 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07), in Reno, Nevada.
Altogether, IBM was awarded the following honors by the editors and readers of HPCwire:
- Blue Gene/P: Readers' Choice Award; Most Significant New HPC Hardware Product.
- Roadrunner: Readers' Choice Award; Best HPC Collaboration Between Government and Industry: IBM, Los Alamos National Laboratory and AMD.
- IBM: Top HPC Vendor for 2007; Readers' Choice Award.
- IBM: Top HPC Vendor for 2007; Editors' Choice Award.
The coveted HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience, along with a rigorous selection process involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community. The 2007 Readers' Choice awards generated a record number of responses from the several hundred thousand readers who access HPCwire each week.
"IBM is proud to receive the recognition of the industry; our peers, our customers and our partners," said David Turek, VP of Deep Computing at IBM. "It's truly an honor. On behalf of the entire HPC team at IBM, I offer our heartfelt thanks to the readers and editors of HPCwire."
"It's our distinct honor to be able to collect and articulate the perceptions of our global readers in order to recognize the accomplishments that are being made in advancing high productivity computing," said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. "These industry awards send a strong message to the recipients that those in the global HPC community recognize their work, and consider their efforts meritorious. Our congratulations go out to all the winners."
More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website.
For more information about IBM supercomputing, visit http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/
About HPCwire — Published by Tabor Communications, HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. HPCwire can be found online at http://www.HPCwire.com.
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