The coveted HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards are determinedthrough online polling of the global HPCwire audience, along with a rigorousselection process involving HPCwire editors and industry luminaries. Theawards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigiousrecognition from the HPC community. These annual awards kick off the SC08conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage,and data analysis.

"Every year, it is our pleasure to survey our readers in order todetermine which HPC-related companies, product and technologies are making thebiggest impacts in mind-share within the HPC community," said Diane Lieberman,publisher of HPCwire. "The HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards send astrong message to the recipients that those in the global HPC communityrecognize their work, and consider their efforts meritorious. Ourcongratulations go out to Panasas and the rest of the winners."

Panasas received the following awards: -- Editors' Choice Top Supercomputing Achievement: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Readers' Choice Best HPC Storage Product or Technology: Panasas ActiveStor -- Readers' Choice Top 5 Vendors to Watch in 2009 -- Readers' Choice Top Collaboration between Government and Industry: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Readers' Choice Top Supercomputing Achievement: Roadrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory "Parallel storage is quickly being adopted globally as Panasas' productshave been installed in more than 30 countries across six continents," saidRandy Strahan, chief executive officer, Panasas, Inc. "This recognitionconfirms Panasas' role as a leader in the parallel storage space andillustrates our commitment to provide the most complete, scalable andproduction-ready parallel storage platform available."

Panasas' parallel storage systems address the needs of a broad spectrum oforganizations from those heavily invested in research and product developmentutilizing design, modeling and visualization applications, to companiesdependent on computational simulation and analysis, like those in the oil &gas, aerospace and automotive sectors. The ActiveStor product family includesthe ActiveStor 6000 and 4000 parallel storage clusters, and the new ActiveStor200, the industry's first parallel second-tier storage solution. AllActiveStor products include the third-generation Panasas ActiveScale 3.2operating environment that is based on the patented object-based PanFS(TM)parallel file system, enabling customers to maximize application and workflowperformance, while reducing the total cost of ownership in the storageinfrastructure.

About Panasas

Panasas, Inc., the global leader in parallel storage solutions, helpscommercial, government and academic organizations accelerate their time toresults leading to faster breakthroughs in solving real world problems thatimprove people's lives. Panasas' high-performance storage systems enablecustomers to maximize the benefits of clusters by eliminating the storagebottleneck created by legacy network storage technologies. Panasas(R)ActiveStor Parallel Storage Solutions, in conjunction with the ActiveScale(R)Operating Environment and PanFS(TM) parallel file system, offer the mostcomprehensive platform of parallel storage solutions for data intensiveenvironments. Panasas is headquartered in Fremont, California. For moreinformation, please visit http://www.panasas.com.

Panasas, ActiveScale, DirectFLOW, PanFS, and Tiered Parity are trademarksor registered trademarks of Panasas, Inc. All other trademarks are theproperty of their respective owners.

About HPCwire

Published by Tabor Communications, HPCwire is the most recognized andaccessed news and information site covering the entire ecosystem of HighProductivity Computing (HPC). HPCwire is the publication of choice for theglobal community of business and technology professionals interested incomputationally- and data-intensive computing, including infrastructure topicssuch as software, middleware, hardware, networking, storage, tools andapplications. HPCwire delivers exclusive interviews with industry leaders ontopics ranging from business and economic issues to advanced and emergingtechnology directions, all in a timely and easily-accessible Internet format.With a powerful combination of email distribution and web site portal, HPCwireis enjoyed each week by several hundred thousand readers. HPCwire can be foundonline at http://www.HPCwire.com.

SOURCE Panasas, Inc.