Salt Lake City, UT  — November 16, 2016 — The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of South Africa has been recognised in the annual HPCwire Readers and Editors Choice Awards, presented at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16), in Salt Lake City, Utah. The CHPC was recognised with the following honours:

• Readers/Editors Choice: Best Collaboration Between Academia and Industry
• Lengau - No. 1 Supercomputer in Africa
   

The coveted annual HPCwire Readers and Editors Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, as well as selections from the HPCwire editors.

The awards also recognised South Africa’s petaflop machine launched on June 7 2016 as the fastest on the continent. This is a super computer with processing speed capable of a thousand trillion floating points operations per second.

The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. They are revealed each year to kick off the annual supercomputing conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis.

"From thought leaders to end-users, the HPCwire readership reaches and engages every corner of the high performance computing community," said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire. "Receiving their recognition signifies community support across the entire HPC space as well as the breadth of industries it serves. We are proud to recognise these efforts and make the voices of our readers heard, and our congratulations go out to all the winners."

More information on these awards can be found at the HPCwire website (http://www.HPCwire.com) or on Twitter through the following hashtag: #HPCwireAwards.

About the CHPC

The CHPC is a South African supercomputing facility, supported by Department of Science and Technology and is managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa. The centre provides high performance computing and data storage facilities to South African researchers and their international collaborators, enabling South Africa to perform cutting-edge research.

The CHPC’s main stakeholders are higher education institutions, privately owned and public organisations.

The CHPC is mandated to provide HPC resources to all of South Africa’s researchers, these include both academic and industry users.  Up to 30% of its compute cluster’s resources is dedicated to industry use.  The centre is actively pursuing linkages between academia and industry with the specific target of expanding industry uptake of HPC. “HPCWire is one of the leading media platforms in the HPC industry and an accolade from them provides confirmation that the centre is moving in the right direction”, said Dr Happy Sithole, Director: CHPC.

About HPCwire

HPCwire is a leading news and information resource covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy dating back to 1986, it has enjoyed a legacy of world-class editorial and journalism, making it the news source of choice selected by science, technology and business professionals interested in high performance and data-intensive computing.