At the IEEE Cluster Computing conference, Pooch won the award "for most innovative commercial software". This was the last time IEEE Cluster has given such an award.

A significant fact about this award is that, on the show floor, all the other solutions were Linux-based solutions, and Pooch was the only Macintosh-based solution. We believe it says a lot when an IEEE committee looks beyond all the other available solutions and points to Pooch as the "most innovative".