Adaptive Computing announced a call for participants for the 2012 Inside-Startups Pitchfest. The event will be held on November 12th in Provo, Utah, in conjunction with SC12 supercomputing conference. The conference brings together leading investment, editorial and analyst professionals in the high-performance computing industry to foster entrepreneurship in the technical community.

Entrepreneurs who attend the Pitchfest will have the unique opportunity to gain exposure through the Inside Startups group, which maintains several publications in the high-tech industry such as Inside Cloud and Inside HPC. Entrants will be judged by a panel of experts with decades of business experience in the high-tech industry, with diverse backgrounds including experience in cloud computing, Internet infrastructure, high-performance computing, data analysis and strategic business development. All participants will be interviewed by members of the press and one winner at the Pitchfest event will receive additional promotion in Inside Startups publications, as well as banner ads and a podcast to promote their business.