Each November, HPCwire’s readers and editors recognize dozens of individuals and organizations across more than 20 very serious award categories, celebrating technology innovations and HPC-driven research that will transform both the industry and the world.
But throughout the year, while covering these developments, there are lots of nooks and crannies in the HPC community that go unsung: in-jokes, art, madcap marketing and oddball research that make the rounds in our meetings but rarely get their own spotlight. So this year – around the time when news tends to be slow! – we decided to shake things up a bit by issuing a few somewhat less serious (but still very sincere) HPCwire Superlative Awards to celebrate the little details that we enjoyed over the past year or so.