Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in Germany announced it is co-sponsoring undergraduate students participating in the SC16 Student Cluster Competition (SCC). This year, GCS provides financial support for two German teams which were accepted for the multi-disciplinary HPC challenge integrated within the Supercomputing Conference 2016 (SC16) in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA): team […]
Video: “What is Supercomputing?”
May 23, 2016 by
In this video from ASC16, students compete in the final round of the Asia Student Cluster Challenge. “Some 175 teams from universities in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania participated in ASC16. Of these, 16 advanced to the final round held last week at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. Armed with their custom-built systems, finalists competed on six different supercomputing application benchmarks within a 3,000W system power limit.”
Huazhong University of Science Wins ASC16 Student Cluster Challenge
April 25, 2016 by
In news from China this week, the Huazhong University of Science has won the ASC16 Student Cluster Challenge. The final round of the competition concluded Friday in Wuhan at the Central China University of Science.
Student Team EPCC Sets Record with help from Boston & CoolIT
June 26, 2014 by
Today Boston Limited and CoolIT Systems sent out congratulations to the student team from EPCC at The University of Edinburgh for their 1st place ranking for the Highest LINPACK in the history of the ISC’14 Student Cluster Challenge.
Old-Timers to Take on Students in Celebrity Pro-Am Cluster Challenge at SC13
November 10, 2013 by
For the first time ever, HPC professionals will be competing against the SC13 Student Cluster Competition teams in a winner-take-all cluster showdown. The new event will begin right after the students turn in their last SCC results Wednesday afternoon on Nov. 20, 2013.
