The 2013 Supercomputing Conference is here, and you know what that means: we’re covering the Student Cluster Competition wall-to-wall.

This is a live face-off of university students who have built their own supercomputers. They’re given real, scientific workloads to run and a power limit they can’t exceed, and the team with the fastest and highest-performing system wins.

Over at StudentClusterComp.com you’ll find all the latest, including:

• An overview of this year’s format
• Profiles of the American and international Standard Track “Big Iron” teams
• An introduction to the brand-new Commodity Track
• Tips from HPC experts on how the competition applications work and how teams can maximize their performance
• Interviews with the teams as they work day and night

Come watch the next generation of HPC leaders work hard, have fun, and achieve the first of many goals.