ISC’12: Cluster Mania Sweeps China
I’ve been following the annual SC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) for a few years now. It’s a great program that pits teams of university … Read More
SC11 Awards: Winners Feted, Smelly Cheese Consumed
The official results of the 2011 Student Cluster Competition were revealed at the lavish SC11 Awards Gala, a luncheon held at the Seattle Sheraton … Read More
SC11: Adventures in Mineral Oil; Deep-Fried Longhorns (Video)
Let’s say that you and your pals need to build a high performance cluster to run a number of HPC apps. It has to … Read More
SC11 Final: Taiwan Repeats; the Rise of GPUs
The final results of the 2011 Student Cluster Competition are in the books and can be revealed. Well, they should have been revealed last … Read More
SC11: The 46-Hour Grind Starts Grinding (Video)
This short video captures the start of the application portion of the 2011 Student Cluster Competition. The students had spent all day Monday driving … Read More
Final Hours at SC11: Team Texas (Video)
The Texas team captured a lot of attention at the Student Cluster Competition this year. Their mineral oil deep-fried cluster was certainly a hit … Read More
Final Hours at SC11: Team Taiwan (Video)
We had a chance to talk to Team Taiwan as the Student Cluster Competition came down to the wire. Although they were their typical … Read More
Final Hours at SC11: Team Russia (Video)
We dropped by the Team Russia booth to congratulate them on their record-setting LINPACK victory and to get their thoughts on SCC11. Is their … Read More