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+authors: [boegel]
+date: 2024-11-18
+slug: hpcwire-readers-choice-awards-2024-for-eessi
+---
+
+# EESSI won an HPCWire Reader's Choice Award!
+
+We are thrilled to announce that **EESSI has won an HPCWire Reader's Choice Award**!
+
+<figure markdown="span">
+![EuroHPC User Day 2024](eessi-hpcwire-award-2024.webp){width=50%}
+</figure>
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+EESSI received the most votes from the HPC community in the *"Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology"* category,
+despite the fierce competition of others projects that got nominated in this category.
+
+This news was revealed at the [Supercomputing 2024 (SC'24) conference in Atlanta (US)](https://sc24.supercomputing.org).
+
+**Thank you very much if you voted for us!**
+
+
+## Award ceremony
+
+<figure markdown="span">
+![EuroHPC User Day 2024](eessi-hpcwire-award-2024-DoITNow-booth.webp){width=80%}
+</figure>
+
+A modest award ceremony was held at the [Do IT Now](https://www.doitnowgroup.com) booth on the SC'24 exhibit floor,
+since [HPCNow!](https://hpcnow.com) (part of the Do IT Now Group)
+is a partner in the [MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence](https://www.multixscale.eu).
+
+The handover of the award plaque was done by [Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, Inc.](https://tomtabor.com/),
+the publisher of [HPCWire](https://www.hpcwire.com).
+
+
+## Picture at EuroHPC JU booth
+
+It is important to highlight that the funding provided by the EuroHPC JU to the MultiXscale Centre-of-Excellence
+has been a huge catalyst in the last couple of years for EESSI, which forms the technical pillar of MultiXscale.
+
+[Anders Dam Jensen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anders-dam-jensen-7a4900/), CEO of EuroHPC JU, and Daniel Opalka,
+head of Research & Innovation at EuroHPC JU, were more than happy to take a commemorative picture at
+the EuroHPC JU booth, together with representatives of some of the MultiXscale partners (Ghent University,
+HPCNow!, and SURF).
+
+<figure markdown="span">
+![EuroHPC User Day 2024](eessi-hpcwire-award-2024-eurohpc-booth-sc24.webp){width=80%}
+</figure>
+
+
+## More info
+
+For more information about EESSI, check out our website: [https://eessi.io](https:/eessi.io).