2009 HPCwire Awards Recognize Rise of NVIDIA Tesla

Nvidia today has a new reason to believe that there really are no competitors in the GPGPU space, 5 new reason in fact, as they won 5 of the annual HPCWire Readers’ & Editors’ choice awards:

• Best HPC Software Product of Technology (Editors’ Choice) – CUDA
• Top5 new products or technologies to watch (Readers’ Choice) – Fermi
• Top 5 new products or Technologies to Watch (Editors’ Choice) – Fermi
• top 5 Vendors to Watch (Editors’ Choice) – NVidia
• People to Watchin 2010 – Jen-Hsun Huang, President & CEO of NVidia

A real coup for NVidia.  When asked, Andy Keane had this to say:

“We’re honored to receive a record five awards for our products and technologies in the HPC space, especially a Readers' Choice as this comes directly from the community,” said Andy Keane, general manager, Tesla business at NVIDIA. “Products based on our Fermi architecture are going to transform a wide range of HPC fields and we're excited to see that the community agrees.”

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .