WINNERS ANNOUNCED

HPCwire has announced their 2003 Readers Choice Awards, the first of their kind. These accolades, unprecedented in the history of the HPC industry, have been determined by polling a large representative sample of HPCwire's worldwide readership as well as a panel of luminaries including Fran Berman, Jay Boisseau, John Hurley, Earl Joseph, and Cherri Pancake, designated as the Editors Choice. Because HPCwire readers are the most elite in the industry, the HPCwire Readers Choice Awards will be the most prestigious in the industry.

While the top tier of computation has seen its share of benchmarks, white papers, analyst reports, and legislative studies, HPCwire's Readers Choice Awards mark the first time that those on the front lines of both commercial and academic high performance computing have offered their personal input on exactly where the cutting edge of technology lies. The results are sure to provoke much controversy as well as create serious food for thought. There were 14 categories in HPCwire's open-ended surveys, designed to provide the most meaningful responses possible:

Following is a comprehensive list of the HPCwire 2003 Readers Choice Award Winners:

Most innovative overall HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: SGI for Altix		Editors Choice: IBM for BlueGene/L
Vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: TIE between Cray and SGI		Editors Choice: AMD for Opteron
Storage technology vendor delivering the most innovative technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: EMC		Editor's Choice: Sun
Storage technology vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution for 2003
	Readers Choice: Apple		Editors Choice: Sun
Hardware vendor delivering the most innovative overall HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: TIE between Cray and SGI		Editors Choice: Apple
Hardware vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution for 2003
	Readers Choice: TIE between IBM and Dell		Editors Choice: TIE between Apple and Sun
Software application vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: Red Hat		Editors Choice: Starbridge Systems
Software application vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution for 2003
	Readers Choice: Red Hat		Editors Choice: Sun
Visualization vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: SGI		Editors Choice: 3D Labs
Visualization vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution for 2003
	Readers Choice: SGI		Editors Choice: SGI
Networking vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: Cisco		Editors Choice: Cisco
Networking vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution for 2003
	Readers Choice: Myrinet-2000		Editors Choice: Quadrics
Cluster vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for 2003
	Readers Choice: Linux Networx		Editors Choice: Linux Networx
Cluster vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution for 2003
	Readers Choice: Linux Networx		Editors Choice: Apple

All winners will be formally presented with their HPCwire Readers Choice awards on the SC2003 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 SC2003 news!