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Student Supercomputing is #PoweredByCentOS

Tuesday, 3, July 2018 Rich Bowen General, Uncategorized No Comments

Last week at the ISC-HPC event in Frankfurt, I had the opportunity to speak briefly with the amazing student teams in the SCC - Student Cluster Competition. These students use commodity hardware to build supercomputers, with a limit of 3KW power consumption, and compete on a variety of benchmarks. These teams are overwhelmingly powered by […]

HPC Student Cluster Competition, Frankfurt, Germany

Tuesday, 27, June 2017 Rich Bowen General No Comments

Last week, as I mentioned in my earlier post, I was in Frankfurt, Germany, for the ISC High Performance Computing conference. The thing that grabbed my attention, more than anything else, was the Student Cluster Competition.  11 teams from around the world - mostly from Universities - were competing to create the fastest (by a variety […]