Here’s a short video covering the beginning of the SC12 edition of the Student Cluster Competition. It begins with co-chairs Doug Smith and Dr. Peter Molnar going over the logistics and rules (Faculty advisors? Coaches? Say goodbye to your team!) with the huge crowd of student clusterers. Someone blows on some sort of animal horn… and the competition begins.
We chat with Doug about what the students are wrestling with when the competition kicks off. We also talk to Michael Brown, a scientist at Oak Ridge, who is the Science Lead of the cluster competition and the person who selected the various apps the students will be running.
The cluster competition takes a strange and disturbing turn at the 3:26 mark in the video. All of the teams are busy in their booths setting up their initial problem runs. All of the teams, that is, with the exception of Team Venus, the all-female team from The University of the Pacific. Their booth has only a single occupant – one who doesn’t even have a password that will allow her to download the data sets from the server. So where are the other team members? What happened to keep them away from their booth at such a critical time? The answers are in the video…
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