The other Chinese entry into SCC’12 is from the National University of Defense Technology. They’re coming off a LINPACK win at the European ISC’12 and a near-victory at SC11 in Seattle. While there’s an obvious language barrier, it’s clear to…

Here’s a look at one of the two Chinese entries into the SC12 Student Cluster Competition. These kids from the University of Science and Technology are not battling just their cluster competitors; they’re also fighting jet lag, 8.5 inches of…

Purdue has been to more SC Student Cluster Competitions (SCC) than any other team. They were there at the beginning and will, we assume, be there long into the future… including the SCCs that occur after genetically modified simians take…

Team Taiwan (from Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University) has a chance to become a three-time Overall Award winner at the SC12 Student Cluster Competition here in Salt Lake City. They notched their first win at SC10 in New Orleans, repeated…

The Texas Tech Red Raiders came to the SC12 Student Cluster Competition with a truly impressive plan. They engineered and built a completely unique immersive cooling solution that looks to be incredibly efficient and, well, incredibly cheap. They took inexpensive…

In the video, we meet the 2012 edition of the Texas Longhorn Student Cluster Competition team. This video was shot right after they received the scientific application data sets and had begun their initial processing. We discuss how they parcel…

Team Chowdah is competing at the SC12 Student Cluster Competition (Big Iron Division) as a consortium of Boston University, Northeastern University, MIT, and Harvard. But where the clusters meet the floor in Salt Lake City, the only students who made…

Team Venus, the all-female Student Cluster Competition (SCC) team from the University of the Pacific, tells us how they found their way into the competition. They also discuss how they’re looking to encourage women to enter STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering…

Once Rich and Henry remind Dan about next week’s Supercomputing conference – and its location – the gang gets down to discussing what’s new, what’s old (other than themselves), and what’s happening. News is expected from Cray, NVIDIA, and Intel……