Jaguar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Receive HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award
Global high-performance computing community honors supercomputer and its home lab
Jaguar, a Cray XT supercomputer, and its Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) host site have received an HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for “Top Supercomputing Achievement.” Jaguar is the fastest high-performance computing system for civilian science. More than 600 experts at ORNL help many more researchers in industry, academia, and government wrest results from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science machine. Since Jaguar’s upgrade in 2008 to become the scientific community’s first petascale system, researchers using the machine for studies in fields including advanced energy, climate science and astrophysics have published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
“This award, which represents a partnership between the HPCwire global readership and our publishing team, is a salute from the global HPC community,” said Tomas Tabor, publisher of HPCwire (http://www.HPCwire.com). He will present the award Nov. 19 to ORNL’s Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences, at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC09) in Portland, Ore. “Being selected as an award recipient means that you are at the top of mind of HPCwire readers, editors, and luminaries in the field,” added Tabor, whose publication covers the ecosystem of computationally- and data-intensive computing, including software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools, and applications.
—by Dawn Levy
