DataDirect Networks Wins HPCwire's Editors' Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product
Flagship S2A9900 Wins Highly Coveted Award
DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) the data infrastructure provider for the most extreme, highest performance computing environments in the world, today announced that its flagship S2A9900 data infrastructure platform won HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award for Best HPC Storage Product or Technology. The award was presented yesterday at SC08, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.
"Every year we survey our readers in order to determine which vendors, products and technologies are making the biggest impact within the HPC community," said Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire. "The HPCwire Editors' Choice Award recognizes those vendors that deliver technology innovation and products of the highest quality, design, and service. We congratulate DDN on this achievement."
The coveted 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, presented at the beginning of the Supercomputing conference, and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community.
"It is through ongoing feedback and close collaboration with distinguished HPC clients such as Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, NASA and Oak Ridge that DDN continues to transcend the boundaries of HPC storage technology innovation," said Alex Bouzari, CEO and Co-founder, DDN. "We are honored by this award which recognizes our dedication to excellence and focus on delivering superior, purpose-built solutions with extreme levels of intelligence, designed to solve HPC problems that other vendors simply can't. There is a reason why DDN powers the world's fastest supercomputers, file systems and storage environments and that reason is highlighted ever so clearly today."
