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GRIDtoday Announces Winners of the Inaugural GRIDtoday Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at GridWorld™ in Washington, DC

News Release: GRIDtoday

Awards Based on Voting by GRIDtoday Readers and Editors Worldwide


Washington, DC — September 12, 2006 — GRIDtoday (www.GRIDtoday.com), the leading source for global news, information and events on Grid and Service-Oriented IT, today announced the winners of GRIDtoday’s inaugural Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards at The IDG GridWorld conference http://www.gridworld.com/live/42/ in Washington, DC.

The GRIDtoday Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through a survey of thousands of GRIDtoday readers, and will be a permanent annual feature of the publication.

GRIDtoday has designated two categories of awards: (1) Readers' Choice, where winners have been determined by a random poll of GRIDtoday readers, and (2) Editors' Choice, where winners have been determined by votes of an advisory group of recognized luminaries, contributors and editors influential in Grid and Service-Oriented IT.

Grid is being used in fields such as academic research, automotive & aerospace, bio-IT, humanities research, security and defense, financial services, government, manufacturing, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and others.

"We are very excited about this opportunity to articulate the views and opinions of our readers to recognize the accomplishments that are being made in advancing the development and adoption of Grid, Service-Oriented IT and virtualization," said Tom Tabor, publisher of GRIDtoday. "These industry recognition awards send a strong message to the recipients that the many global contributors working in or watching this important computing segment recognize their work, and consider their efforts meritorious. Our congratulations go out to all the winners.”

The GRIDtoday 2006 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Most useful and innovative Grid SOLUTION OR BUILDING BLOCK available today
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: IBM
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Platform Computing

Most innovative Grid MIDDLEWARE solution
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Platform Computing
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Univa Corporation

Most innovative STORAGE solution for a Grid implementation
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: IBM
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: eXludus

Most innovative NETWORKING solution for a Grid implementation
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Voltaire
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Cisco Systems

Most innovative Grid MANAGEMENT OR PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT SOFTWARE for a Grid implementation
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Altair Engineering
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: United Devices

Best price / performance Grid SOLUTION OR BUILDING BLOCK available today
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Sun Microsystems
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: IBM


Best price / performance MIDDLEWARE solution for a Grid implementation
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Platform Computing
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: (Tie)
United Devices
Digipede Technologies

Best price / performance STORAGE solution for a Grid implementation
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: IBM
Editors’ Choice Award Recipients: Terrascale Technologies

Best price / performance NETWORKING solution for a Grid implementation
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Cisco Systems
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Voltaire

Commercial organization demonstrating the most Innovative Grid Implementation in EARTH SCIENCES / ENERGY
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Royal Dutch / Shell Group
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: BP Global

Commercial organization demonstrating the most Innovative Grid Implementation in LIFE SCIENCES (includes Pharma)
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Novartis AG
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Johnson & Johnson

Commercial organization demonstrating the most Innovative Grid Implementation in MANUFACTURING
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: The Boeing Company
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Airbus

Commercial organization demonstrating the most Innovative Grid Implementation in ENTERTAINMENT
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Pixar Animation Studios
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: DreamWorks SKG

Most Innovative Grid Implementation in FINANCIAL SERVICES
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Wachovia Corporation
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: JPMorgan Chase

Commercial organization demonstrating the most Innovative Grid Implementation for BUSINESS PROCESS EFFICIENCY
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: Google
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: eBay

Research organization demonstrating the most innovative Grid implementation in support of EARTH SCIENCES / ENERGY applications
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: TeraGrid
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: D-Grid Initiative

Research organization demonstrating the most innovative Grid implementation in LIFE SCIENCES (includes Pharma)
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: RENCI TeraGrid BioPortal
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

Research organization demonstrating the most innovative Grid implementation in GOVERNMENT research
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: CERN

Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: (Tie)
TeraGrid
UK e-Science Programme


Research Grid initiative that you feel has earned the reputation of overall 'Top Research Grid'
Readers’ Choice Award Recipient: CERN
Editors’ Choice Award Recipient: TeraGrid


About GRIDtoday
Published weekly, GRIDtoday (www.gridtoday.com) is the world’s leading source of news, information and events covering Grid and Service-Oriented IT. In addition to the weekly publication, GRIDtoday offers daily news alerts capturing the top and most relevant stories from around the globe as well as event-specific coverage from industry cornerstone events. Subscription information for GRIDtoday can be found at: http://www.gridtoday.com/info/701.html

 

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