Sandia R&D 100 award for Catamount N-Way kernel (2008)
First computer to achieve a peak computational speed of over 1 teraflops (ASCI Red, 1996) and 2 teraflops (ASCI Red, 1999).
First computer to achieve a peak computational speed of over 300 gigaflops (Intel Paragon, 1994). Team won Sandia R&D 100 award for work on operating system and math libraries.
First commodity cluster to reach the Top 100 fastest computer systems (Cplant, Top 500 # 97, 11/1998)