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
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ISC’16 Preview: Veteran Commentators Handicap the Race
The world’s attention will be focused on Frankfurt, Germany next week for the kick-off of the fifth annual ISC’16 Student Cluster Competition. Twelve teams … Read More
ASC16: Home Team Triumphs
For the first time in student cluster competition history, a hometown team has won the Overall Championship award. The team, from China’s Huazhong University … Read More
ASC16: HPC Cluster Kids Have Their Fans to Thank
Excitement reigned at the Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge as Zhejiang University set a new student LINPACK record with 12.03 TFlop/s. With this result, they … Read More
ASC16: Students Sweat Out Benchmarks; LINPACK & HPCG Hijinks
The first task that students have to perform at the ASC16 Student Cluster Competition is to run the venerable HPL and newish HPCG benchmarks. … Read More
ASC16: The Heavyweights; ‘Go Big or Go Home’
We’ve saved the biggest for last in our round-up of the Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge competitors. All of the teams below are driving clusters with more than … Read More
ASC16: Student Warriors Build Out ‘Mid-Size Sedan’ Clusters
Four teams in the Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge decided to stake out the middle ground in the competition with clusters that aren’t too small and aren’t … Read More
ASC16: Bite-Sized Clusters Pack Big Punch
Although the teams in the ASC16 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge are all using the same Inspur-provided gear, there’s a LOT of variety in what they built. … Read More
ASC16: Students Prep War Boxes for Chinese Tussle; Configurations Revealed
The Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) is the closest thing to true stock car racing that you’ll find on the Student Cluster Competition international circuit. At … Read More
ASC16: 175 teams, 4 continents, $36,000: It’s the Amazing HPC Cluster Race
The largest student cluster competition in the known world kicked off Monday in Wuhan (or Woohan! as I call it), China. Sixteen teams representing … Read More