HPCwire, the publication of record for high performance computing, has announced the winners of the 2005 Reader's Choice Awards. The 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 were presented to the executives leading these prestigious firms at the Supercomputing 2005 Conference being held in Seattle, WA.

The HPCwire 2005 Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

Most Significant New HPC Product - Hardware
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: AMD64 Dual Core Processor
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: IBM
 
Most Important Overall HPC Technology or Product
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: AMD64 Dual Core Processor
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: IBM
 
Best Hardware Price / Performance Solution
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Dell PowerEdge Servers
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Dell PowerEdge Servers

Most Innovative Storage Technology Vendor
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: DataDirect Networks
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: HP Storage Works Scalable File Share (HP SFS) based on Lustre Technology from Cluster File Systems Inc.
 
Best Price / Performance Storage Solution
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: DataDirect Networks / RAID Storage Networking System
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Panasas, ActiveScale File System
 
Most Significant New HPC Product - Software
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: NPACI Rocks 4.0
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: PathScale, EKO Compiler Suite
 
Most Important Software Innovation
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Myricom, Myrinet MX Software
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: NPACI Rocks 4.0
 
Best Software Price / Performance
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: PathScale EKOPath Compiler Suite
                Editors' Choice Award Recipients (Tie): Etnus, TotalView; PathScale, EKOPath Compiler Suite;      
 
 
Most Innovative Visualization Technology or Product
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: SGI
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: SGI
 
Best Price / Performance In High-end Graphics or Visualization
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: SGI
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: SGI
 
Most Innovative HPC Networking Solutions
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Myricom
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Mellanox

Best HPC Networking Price / Performance Solution
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Myricom
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Intel

Most Innovative HPC Cluster Technology
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient (Tie): IBM; Linux Networx          
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Linux Networx
 
Best Price / Performance HPC Cluster
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient (Tie): Linux Networx; Sun Microsystems
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Sun Microsystems

Most Innovative HPC Technology for 2005 / Overall Top HPC Vendor
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Cray
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Intel

Most Innovative Implementation of an HPC Application
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient(s): Fluent, American Power Conversion, AMD and Ferrari / The Ferrari Data Center
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient(s): Fluent, American PowerConversion, AMD and Ferrari / The Ferrari Data Center

Best Collaboration Government & Industry
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) & IBM
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Cornell Theory Center

HPC Public Awareness Award
                Readers' Choice Award Recipient: Intel
                Editors' Choice Award Recepient: CERN

HPC Community Recognition Award  "For Communicating the Importance of HPC Technology & Raising Public Awareness"

                Readers' Choice Award Recipient:Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee and Distinguished Research Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
                Editors' Choice Award Recipient: Dr. Thomas Zacharia, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory