Sixth Annual 2009 Product to Watch Awards

Supercomputing Online honors the leading products at the Sixth Annual 2009 Product to Watch Awards: South Beach, FL -- As always, it was a great pleasure to see so many outstanding new products at Supercomputing in Austin, TX. Our specialist judging panel each year is looking for new products that will have the highest impact within the supercomputing industry. Judging took place on December 10, 2008. The judging committee cited these products as being both innovative and of substantial value to the world’s supercomputing professionals. The Sixth Annual 2009 Product to Watch Awards serve as a mark of excellence, providing the ultimate recognition from peers within the global supercomputing community. There were over 34,000 votes in last year’s contest. SC Online users can submit their votes for the award in the site's right-hand sidebar or in the voting booth.

1. AMD Opteron
2. Altair GridWorks PBS Professional
3. Appro Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer
4. Atipa Technologies Server and Clustering
5. Convey HC-1
6. DataDirect Networks S2A9900
7. Dell HPC Solutions
8. HP POD
9. IBM System x iDataPlex
10. Intel Xeon
11. Interactive Supercomputing Star-P 
12. Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
13. NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer
14. Penguin Computing Emperor Series Clusters
15. SiCortex SC072-PDS
16. ScaleMP vSMP Foundation
17. Sun Constellation System
18. Texas Memory Systems RamSan solid state disks
19. TotalView Technologies ReplayEngine
20. Univa UD UniCluster
21. Voltaire Grid Director
22. Woven 10 GE Fabric