SC16 Configs: FPGAs join tussle; GPUs back with a vengeance
This is the most widely varied and exciting set of student cluster competition systems I’ve seen since the competition began ten years ago. We … Read More
ISC’16: LINPACK Record Falls Again
The ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Student Cluster Competition once again cements its reputation as the place where LINPACK records go to fall. Last week … 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: 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: 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
SC14: The Battle of New Orleans
Two hundred years after the first Battle of New Orleans, we had the third, and perhaps most important, tussle the city has ever seen. … Read More
ASC14: Hometown Kids Smash College LINPACK Record
“Winner, winner, chicken dinner!” is what I think the students from Guangzhou’s Sun Yat-sen University were screaming when they saw the results from the … Read More
Meet the ASC14 Teams: LINPACK Jockeys and Brazilians Vie for Crown
Welcome to the second batch of video profiles of the sixteen university teams competing for supercomputing glory at the ASC14 Student Cluster Competition. China’s … Read More
ISC’13 KlusterKamph Official Results! Record number of LINs packed in Leipzig
Last week saw another exciting Student Cluster Competition move from the Leipzig ISC’13 exhibit hall battlefield into the annals of history. The official results … Read More
ISC’13 Last Day Action: Team Huazhong
We see a different Team Huazhong on the last day of the competition. They’re more relaxed and playful, and they’re confident that they’ve done … Read More