DataDirect Networks, the leading provider of networked storage and cluster solutions for HPC, announced that the “Distributed Lustre File System Demonstration” team including DataDirect Networks, Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and other government and industry partners were awarded the “Both Direction Award” at the fourth annual High Performance Bandwidth Challenge held at SC2003 in Phoenix, Arizona. Compute nodes at SC2003 and NCSA accessed servers in both locations and were reading and writing concurrently to a single and to multiple files spread across the servers. The judges took special note of the fact that this demonstration showed that not all applications move data in only one direction. "This award validates our undisputed vision and leadership in storage clustering solutions for the HPC market," said Paul Bloch, President of DataDirect Networks. "With dozens of the fastest HPC systems in the world getting significant performance, cost and scalability benefits from DataDirect Networks' products and services, we continue to provide the absolute best storage and clustering technology to our valued customers." DataDirect’s S2A and SwiftCluster customers in the HPC space include: Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Sandia National Labs, NCSA, NASA Goddard, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Argonne National Laboratory, US Army Research Lab, NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, NCAR, and DKRZ.