- Unprecedented Number of HPCwire Readers and Editors Worldwide
Voted to Select This Year’s Winners
RENO, NEVADA - November 13, 2007: RapidMind has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2007 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07), in Reno, Nevada. RapidMind was awarded two Editors’ Choice Awards for Most Significant New HPC Software Product and Top Five Company to Watch in 2008.
The coveted HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience, along with a rigorous selection process involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community. The 2007 Readers’ Choice awards generated a record number of responses from the several hundred thousand readers who access HPCwire each week.
“It’s our distinct honor to be able to collect and articulate the perceptions of our global readers in order to recognize the accomplishments that are being made in advancing high productivity computing,” said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. “These industry awards send a strong message to the recipients that those in the global HPC community recognize their work, and consider their efforts meritorious. Our congratulations go out to all the winners.”
Developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind today to create manageable, single-threaded applications that leverage the full potential of multi-core processors from AMD® and Intel® and to seamlessly take advantage of the application acceleration available from GPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine™.
“RapidMind is revolutionizing the software industry by reducing the cost and complexity of developing HPC and enterprise applications that leverage multiple cores to achieve the hardware’s full performance potential” said RapidMind president and CEO, Ray DePaul. “We are delighted to be honored with two Editors’ Choice Awards. Recognizing the challenges that multi-core processors present, the readers and editors of HPCwire have acknowledged the importance the RapidMind platform plays in allowing software organizations to quickly build and deploy multi-core capable applications.”
More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website.
