FIRST ANNUAL HPC INNOVATION AWARDS TO DEBUT AT SC2003                 11.10.03
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San Diego, CA -- Tabor Communications Inc, the publishers of HPCwire, will debut their HPC Innovation Awards during SC2003 in Phoenix, AZ, Nov 15-21. The awards, unprecedented in the arena of high performance computing, will be presented to those who have shown the most innovative technologies in two
divisions: Readers Choice, comprising the results of polling 30% of HPCwire's 57,000 readers worldwide; and Editor's Choice comprising results from a panel of distinguished computer science luminaries including Fran Berman, Jay Boisseau, John Hurley, Earl Joseph, and Cherri Pancake. 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 Innovation Awards mark the first time in history that those on the front lines of both commercial and academic high performance computing 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:

1. Most innovative HPC technology for 2003
2. Vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for 2003 3. Storage technology vendor delivering the most innovative
    technology for 2003
4. Storage technology vendor delivering the greatest price
    performance solution for 2003?
5. Hardware vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology for
    2003
6. Hardware vendor delivering the greatest price performance solution
    for 2003
7. Software application vendor delivering the most innovative HPC
    technology for 2003
8. Software application vendor delivering the greatest price
    performance solution for 2003
9. Visualization vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology
    for 2003
10. Visualization vendor delivering the greatest price performance
     solution for 2003
11. Networking vendor delivering the most innovative HPC technology
     for 2003
12. Networking vendor delivering the greatest price performance
     solution for 2003
13. Cluster vendor delivering the most innovative HPC
     technology for 2003
14. Cluster vendor delivering the greatest price performance
     solution for 2003

HPCwire is the worldwide publication of record for the high performance computing community. All winners will be formally announced on the SC2003 show floor and covered by LIVEwire, HPCwire's annual 3-edition breaking-news special distributed electronically during the event itself. 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!