ISC’16 System Configurations: All over the map
This year’s ISC’16 Student Cluster Competition boasts the most diverse set of hardware in the near 10-year history of student cluster competitions. Student teams … Read More
ASC16: Home Team Triumphs
For the first time in student cluster competition history, a hometown team has won the Overall Championship award. The team, from China’s Huazhong University … Read More
ASC16: Students Prep War Boxes for Chinese Tussle; Configurations Revealed
The Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) is the closest thing to true stock car racing that you’ll find on the Student Cluster Competition international circuit. At … Read More
ASC16: 175 teams, 4 continents, $36,000: It’s the Amazing HPC Cluster Race
The largest student cluster competition in the known world kicked off Monday in Wuhan (or Woohan! as I call it), China. Sixteen teams representing … Read More
ASC14: Hometown Kids Smash College LINPACK Record
“Winner, winner, chicken dinner!” is what I think the students from Guangzhou’s Sun Yat-sen University were screaming when they saw the results from the … Read More
Meet the ASC14 Teams: Singapore, Shanghai, and a Side of Hungarian Goulash
The first team up in our third batch of ASC14 team profiles is Team Shanghai (from Shanghai Jiao Tong University). As usual, I have … Read More
ASC14: Racks Revealed
One of the major differences between the recently completed Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge and the other major international competitions is the way the students … Read More
Live from China: ASC14 Underway
We’re in Guangzhou, China, for the final round of the largest student cluster competition in the world. And to make it even more tense, … Read More
SC13 Big Iron: Analysis
As our faithful Twitter followers have heard, Team Longhorn from The University of Texas at Austin won the Overall Championship Award in the Big … Read More
ISC’13: Meet Team Tsinghua; Defending the title
Here’s our first conversation with Team Tsinghua, who earned their berth here at ISC’13 by winning the first Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge in April. … Read More