PITTSBURGH/SUPERCOMPUTING 2004 — November 10, 2004 — Panasas, Inc. today announced the company's Panasas Storage Cluster platform was recognized with an HPCwire 2004 "Reader's Choice" Award for most innovative storage technology. The publication's readers who voted on the awards are experts serving on the front lines of scientific and commercial high performance computing. These readers recognized the value of the Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster in helping customers maximize the benefits of Linux clusters by breaking down the storage bottleneck.
The second annual polling of HPCwire's global readership produced the winners of the "Reader's Choice" Awards. The awards are being presented today to the executives leading these prestigious firms at the Supercomputing 2004 Conference and Exhibition being held in Pittsburgh, Pa.
"Recognition from customers in the HPC industry is a great honor, and serves as a stamp of approval for those products that are capable of living up to the standards of performance demanded by the technical and high performance computing community," said Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire. "The Reader's Choice Awards give readers an opportunity to weigh in on the year's most outstanding products in high performance computing, and for leading companies to be recognized for their innovative contributions. We're pleased to honor Panasas this year for their achievement in network storage."
Panasas is reshaping the storage paradigm by driving the complexity out of network storage and enabling the emergence of Linux clusters as a viable mainstream high performance computing solution. The Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster is a high performance computing solution that incorporates industry-standard hardware, groundbreaking Panasas ActiveScale File SystemTM software, and an object-based storage architecture.
"While most company's have focused heavily on advancements in the 'compute' side of HPC, Panasas has been squarely focused on solving the one remaining challenge that robs Linux clusters of their full potential - the storage bottleneck," said Victor Perez, president and chief executive officer at Panasas. "This recognition by the readership of HPCwire is validation that the Panasas Storage Cluster enables Linux clusters to reach their ultimate potential."
About HPCwire
HPCwire is the worldwide publication of record for all aspects of the (H)igh (P)erformance (C)omputing industry. Devoted primarily to ongoing developments across the entire spectrum of computationally-intensive hardware, software and integrated systems technology, HPCwire also covers related business, corporate, economic and governmental news in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format. Authoritative commentary and analysis by HPC insiders and professionals are also included regularly to insure maximum value for readers, no matter how complex the issues. HPCwire is a weekly electronic publication with over 57,000 readers.
About Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, 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 Linux clusters by eliminating the storage bottleneck created with legacy network storage technologies. Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters, in conjunction with the ActiveScale® Operating Environment and PanFS™ parallel file system, offer the most comprehensive portfolio of storage solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For more information, please visit www.panasas.com.
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