SC12 Team Previews: China Looks for Sweep
2012 is the Year of the Dragon according to Chinese astrologers, and it’s been a most auspicious year for Chinese HPC student cluster teams. … Read More
ISC’12: The Last Day: Will GPUs put NUDT over the top?
ISC’12: Meet NUDT, the school where Tianhe-1A lives
ISC’12 Honor Roll
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 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
Final Hours at SC11: Team China (Video)
Meet the SC11 Team: China’s NUDT (Video)
China’s NUDT (National University of Defense Technology) shocked the world in 2010 when they unveiled the fastest supercomputer known to man, the 1.86 Pflop … Read More
SC11: Mineral Oil, GPUs, and Thousands of Cores: SCC Hardware Revealed
The hardware configurations for the 2011 SC Student Cluster Competition have been released, and there are quite a few surprises. First, the most surprising … Read More