Congratulations to the University of Alberta for taking home the gold at the first annual Supercomputing Cluster Challenge. Of all the competitors, U of Alberta didn’t have the fastest cluster design on paper. However, good planning, preparation and a wonderful stroke of luck following a power outage on the show-floor powered the team to win […]
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Purdue's Rack-A-Node Supercomputer Game
November 10, 2008 by
Purdue University has built an online game, Rack-A-Node, to highlight its students participating in this year’s SC08 Cluster Challenge. Rack-A-Node is an online game allowing players their chance at designing and operating a simulated research supercomputer. Players build a cluster using various different types of machines to run scientific experiments. As the player becomes more […]
When Students Compete, the Whole HPC Community Wins
July 21, 2014 by
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Jon Bashor from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory describes how the Student Cluster Competitions benefit the HPC community at large.
LLNL's Hyperion testbed [UPDATED]
November 24, 2008 by
There was a lot of talk last week about Hyperion, the technology testbed project led by LLNL along with 10 other technology partners (including Intel and Dell). We should probably do a feature article on it for HPCwire, but until then here are a few nuggets I’ve run across. First, from the Intel web site […]
