SALT LAKE CITY, Utah–Despite a strong effort by the hometown University of Utah team, students from the University of Science and Technology of China took top honors in the tenth running of the Student Cluster Competition at the SC16 conference. For the first time in the history of the event, one team won both categories: […]
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#SCC #SC16: Welcome Boston Green Team
Boston Green Team, a joint collaboration between Boston University, Umass Boston, and MIT, chose the green theme to show that they’re committed to running code efficiently, and in doing so saving the planet and advancing the frontier of what’s possible. “We’ve experimented with green architectures in the past, at ISC we ran an 8-node NVIDIA […]
The Latest News from the Student Cluster Competition in Salt Lake City
With this year marking the tenth year of the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the SC conference, it’s a good time to look both forward to this year’s event, as well as look back at the history of this competition that has been adopted by organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. It all traces back […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University
The SC16 SCC marks the fifth time students from the University of Texas at Austin have competed and this year they are teaming up with Texas State University. To reflect their interschool association of the two schools and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), they named their group “Team Texas”, and extended the theme to […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome Team SwanGeese from China’s University of Science and Technology
After their attendance at SC12 and SC14 China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) “SwanGeese” team is making their third appearance in the SC conference Student Cluster Competition this year. In traditional Chinese culture, the rare Swan Goose stands for teamwork, perseverance and bravery. Since these spirits well represent the characteristics of the team, and […]
#SCC #SC16 #Germany: “Willkommen” Technical University of Munich, Germany
In making their second run at the SCC, the team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has a couple of obstacles to overcome. The first was choosing a name. “In terms of punnies, we have to live up to our university’s previous team called TUMuchPhun. In order to beat this we had to surpass […]
#SC16 #SCC: Welcome Back – National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Representing National Tsing Hua University from Taiwan is Team PPAP, which stands for Password Paraview and Parconnect. And since there is a popular song also titled PPAP, they have a ready-made theme song. Not only do they like to listen to the song, the team also sings it while they are working and for good […]
#SCC #SC16: San Diego State to Make 1st Appearance at Student Cluster Competition
For its first foray into the Student Cluster Competition, San Diego State University is sending the Bit Benders. “Because most of us are fans of Futurama, bit shifting is so last century, and we make the bits on our cluster bend to our own will.” Which of course led to them choosing the Futurama theme […]
#SCC #SC16: Meet Columbia’s Team EAFIT
When Team EAFIT boards their first flight en route to Salt Lake City at 1 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11 (after driving an hour to the airport), they will not only have several members from last year’s team, but they will also be bringing insight gleaned from members of Universidad EAFIT’s first foray in the Student […]
#SCC #SC16 #Huazhong: Meet Team Heptagon from Huazhong University in China
Team Heptagon from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China is making their second appearance in the SCC. The team name represents the seven members who together form a whole unit. Team Heptagon is banking on the experience of current and past members in student cluster competitions at SC, ISC, ASC in China and […]
