FREMONT, CA — November 13, 2007 — Panasas, Inc., the leader in parallel storage solutions for the High Performance Computing (HPC) market, today announced that its Tiered Parity™ Architecture and Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage have earned the annual HPCwire Editors' Choice and Readers' Choice Awards, respectively. The awards were presented last night at the 2007 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07), in Reno, Nevada. The Panasas exhibit is located in Booth 1037.
The coveted HPCwire Editors' Choice Award is determined by a rigorous selection process involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries, and the Readers' Choice Award is determined through online polling of the HPCwire audience which includes users across the globe. 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 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 Panasas for their achievements in earning this award."
Panasas introduced its Tiered Parity Architecture earlier this fall (http://www.panasas.com/press_release_100907.html). The innovative end-to-end Tiered-Parity architecture addresses the primary causes of storage reliability problems and provides the industry's first end-to-end data integrity checking capability. It is the most significant extension to disk array data reliability since Panasas CTO Garth Gibson's pioneering RAID research at UC-Berkeley in 1988. The ActiveStor Parallel Storage Cluster is the premiere storage solution for High Performance Computing environments where performance, scalability and manageability are critical to delivering results as quickly as possible to drive competitive advantage.
"We are extremely pleased that the HPC community has honored us with these awards and understands the benefits of parallel storage," said Victor Perez, CEO of Panasas. "This recognition from both the Editors and Readers underscores our continued industry leadership, not just in technological innovation, but in leveraging that innovation to deliver storage solutions that provide real value to our customers.
About HPCwire
Published by Tabor Communications, HPCwire is the most recognized and accessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of High Productivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for the global community of business and technology professionals interested in computationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topics such as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools and applications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders on topics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emerging technology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwire is enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. HPCwire can be found online at
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About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance storage for the world’s most performance-intensive applications, helps commercial, government and academic organizations accelerate their time to results, leading to real-world breakthroughs that improve people’s lives. Panasas high-performance storage systems enable customers to maximize the benefits of high-performance computers and clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with legacy network storage technologies. Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in conjunction with the PanFS™ parallel file system, offer the most comprehensive portfolio of high-performance storage solutions for compute-intensive environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For more information, please visit www.panasas.com.
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