Arista Networks Receives Honors in 2012 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Annual HPCwire Awards Demonstrate Achievements of Excellence Within the HPC Community

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah November 13, 2012 -Arista Networks has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2012 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), in Salt Lake City, Utah. The list of winners were announced live from the HPCwire booth at the event, and a complete listing is available on the HPCwire website, located at www.HPCwire.com.

Arista Networks has been selected to receive the following award(s):

  • The Editor’s Choice Award – Best HPC Storage Product or Technology for its contributions to the SDSC Data Oasis Storage System on Gordon

“We are honored to be receiving this award that speaks to the innovative nature of our customers. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (the SDSC) is a great example of the next generation data centers we build in partnership with customers who want to manage not only big data but all aspects of data-intensive, cloud computing,” said Anshul Sadana, senior vice president Customer Engineering for Arista Networks. "Our commitment to delivering superior storage application performance and efficiency is evident in Arista's broad product portfolio of 10, 40 and 100 GbE capable products."

The highly-coveted HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience for the Readers’ Choice Awards, combined with a rigorous selection process for the Editor’s Choice Awards, where winners have been selected by a panel of editorial and executive staff, recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from across the industry. The awards are revealed during the Monday opening reception at the Supercomputing Conference each year, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis. The awards hold the unique distinction of being recognized as the most prestigious recognition given by the HPC community to its own each year.

"It’s an honor and a privilege to take time during the most important supercomputing conference globally to acknowledge the organizations and the inpiduals behind them who exemplify the hard work, dedication, and effort that has taken place the past year to develop new technologies that ultimately benefit mankind”, said Jeff Hyman, president and group publisher of Tabor Communications Inc. "The awards represent the highest level of recognition to the leaders and luminaries in the high performance computing industry by our HPCwire readers and the community alike. Our warmest congratulations go out to all the recipients of this year’s awards.”

More information on the awards can be found at the HPCwire website www.hpcwire.com

About HPCwire

HPCwire is the #1 news and information portal covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy dating back to 1986, HPCwire continues to be the publication of choice globally by business and technology professionals from academia, government, science, and industry who are interested in high performance and computationally intensive computing. For topics ranging from the latest developments in systems, software, tools and applications, to middleware, networking and storage technologies, HPCwire delivers it all and remains the HPC communities’ most reliable and trusted resource. For additional information, visit: www.hpcwire.com

About Arista

Arista Networks was founded to deliver software defined cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista’s award-winning best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches redefine scalability, robustness, and price–performance. At the core of Arista's platform is EOS, the world’s most advanced network operating system. Arista Networks products are available worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers.

Additional information and resources on today's announcement can be found at: https://www.arista.com

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Caroline Connor, Tabor Communications Inc.
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