Eight university teams – six from the US, one from Russia, and one from Taiwan – descend on the SC10 supercomputing show in New Orleans next week to take part in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC). Each team arrives with its own unique set of skills and challenges; read a profile of each team here.
The students bring their self-designed, self-built clusters to the show where they re-assemble them and race to complete a set of benchmarks and workloads in the quickest time.
The competition tests their system design skills, their aptitude for learning new programs and new methods, and their ability to optimize code to produce more (and better) output than their rivals.
GCG is covering the competition from the show floor for The Register… Pick a team to cheer on, and check back to see how they’re faring…