Saturday, November 30, 2013

SGI Receives Seven Top Honors in 2013 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

SGI Receives Seven Top Honors in 2013 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

Last week, SGI received seven awards for outstanding technology and implementation achievements as part of the 2013 HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards and HPCwire Editors' Choice Awards.


SGI was selected as a recipient of four HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, winning case studies that include:

  1. Top Supercomputing Achievement:  TOTAL S.A. and SGI “Pangea” the World’s Largest Commercial HPC Deployment for Oil and Gas Exploration
  2. Best use of HPC in Life Sciences:  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and SGI “Blacklight” for Next Generation Sequencing Assembly
  3. Best use of HPC in Financial Services:  PayPal and SGI, Mellanox, and DataDirect Networks technologies for fraud detection and prevention during PayPal transactions
  4. Best use of HPC in the Oil and Gas Industry:  TOTAL S.A. using SGI “Pangea” for oil and gas exploration

 HPCwire Editors’ Choice Awards selected SGI for two category wins based on customer implementation and standalone product offering, which include:

  1. Best use of HPC in Financial Services:  XSEDE PSC SGI “Blacklight” and SDSC Cray “Gordon” Research enables faster market analysis and imposes stricter regulations upon stock market trading
  2. Best HPC Storage Product or Technology:  SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway

For more information. See SGI Press release SGI Receives Seven Top Honors in 2013 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

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