Live from ISC’16: Radio Free HPC
The TOP500 news out of Frankfurt is huge: Tianhe-2 has been knocked off its #1 perch by a system nearly three times faster. You read … Read More
Want HPC Immortality? Compete for the Student Cluster Competition crown
Do you want to secure a place in HPC history? One route would be to singlehandedly design and implement an exascale supercomputer, a task most … Read More
Liquid Cooling Deep Dive
I recently had a conversation with Pat McGinn, product manager at CoolIT Systems. Fortunately I recorded our chat, then matched it up with some … Read More
SC14: All Powered Up
As the twelve Student Cluster teams race to the finish line, we can track their all-important power stats here. How important is all-important, you ask? From … Read More
Podcast: SC14 Preview on Radio Free HPC
The Grandaddy of them all… the Rose Bowl of HPC… yes, it’s the Student Cluster Competition at the 2014 Supercomputing Conference. This biggest-ever event … Read More
ISC’14 Honor Roll
Results from the ISC’14 Student Cluster Challenge in Leipzig Overall Winner: Centre for High Performance Computing, South Africa Highest LINPACK: 1. The University of Edinburgh … Read More
ASC14 System Configurations
(Click photo to enlarge.) All the details on all of the (Inspur) gear at the April 2014 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge in Guangzhou, China.
ISC’14 Teams in Place
From ISC News: The Asian Supercomputing Challenge 2014 Committee and the HPC Advisory Council have selected the Shanghai Jiao Tong University of China and … Read More
From Two Floors Above Tianhe-2…
…Dan Olds talks with Rich Brueckner of insideHPC about the Asia Student Supercomputing Challenge, ASC14. The competition is taking place at Sun Yat-sen University in … Read More
SC14 Deadline Announced
The invitation is out – it’s time for student teams to begin signing up for the next SC showdown! From today’s announcement: Students interested … Read More