The application reviews have been completed and the SC16 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) committee has invited 14 teams to compete in this year’s event in Salt Lake City. The teams hail from across the U.S., as well at Asia, Europe and South America. The competition will feature six universities competing for the first time: Peking […]
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Reminder: Team Applications for Student Cluster Competition Due Friday, April 22
Students interested in demonstrating their high-performance computing skills on a global stage are invited to team up and sign up to compete in the tenth annual Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the SC16Conference. The deadline for submitting applications has just been extended to Friday, April 22, to help those teams who weren’t sure if they […]
SC16 Explores Reproducibility for Advanced Computing Through Student Cluster Competition by Michela Taufer
Data sets and software are important by-products products of research in fields that depend upon data-intensive and high performance computing. But these elements are typically absent when research results are recorded in a journal article or conference proceedings. There is a growing sense in the computational community that this gap needs to be filled if […]
SC15 Awards Recap: Part 1
Once again, the SC Awards Ceremony was an entertaining event and one of the many highlights of conference week. This year, the SC15 Award Co-Chairs were Padma Raghavan and Franck Cappello who helped open the SC15 Awards Ceremony According to Cappello, “The awards are very important for the SC conference series. They celebrate the best […]
China’s Team Diablo Turns Up the Heat to Win SC15 Student Cluster Competition
Tsinghua University Claims Third Cluster Competition Title this Year Team Diablo from Tsinghua University, the overall winners of the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua University in China, won the top prize in the Student Cluster Competition at the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas. A team from Germany, […]
SC15 Student Cluster Competition Fires Things Up with Secret Sauce
SCC Secret Sauce Salsa secreta. Geheime Sosse. Secret sauce. 紹兴. 沙茶. No matter how you say it, that extra special ingredient known only to you can sometimes make all the difference in the world. And that’s just what nine teams of students are hoping as they converge on Austin, Texas, to demonstrate their prowess in […]
SC15 Panel Line-Up for Nov. 18th
Supercomputing and Big Data: From Collision to Convergence As data intensive science emerges, the need for high performance computing (HPC) to converge capacity and capabilities with Big Data becomes more apparent and urgent. Capacity requirements have stemmed from science data processing and the creation of large scale data products (e.g., earth observations, Large Hadron Collider, […]
Getting to Know the Student Cluster Competition Teams
From left, the Technische Universität München team is: Michael Zellner, Gregor Matl, Felix Thimm, Daniel Gallenberger, Felix Spaeth, and Sharru Moeller. The following is an interesting look at one of the nine Student Cluster Competition teams competing in Austin this November. Click here to learn more about some of the other teams. For what reasons […]
Meet the SC15 Student Cluster Competition Chair: Hai Ah Nam
The SC15 Student Cluster Chair Hai Ah Nam from Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1999, the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Hai Ah Nam left graduate school for a summer hiatus to take care of her ailing father and save a marriage that was cracking under the grad school pressure. The summer hiatus ended up lasting […]
SC15 Selects 9 Teams for Student Cluster Competition
It’s that time of year again, teams from across the world are preparing to compete in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at SC15. This year the SCC is proud to host 9 teams that will battle it out to showcase their hardware and computing might to battle zombie invasions, hurricanes, exotic particles, gene reconstruction and […]
