The Texas team captured a lot of attention at the Student Cluster Competition this year. Their mineral oil deep-fried cluster was certainly a hit with the crowd, but did it pay computing dividends? They put in the best non-GPU fueled LINPACK and, assumedly, should perform well on the scientific apps. But will their performance beat the other teams?

We spent a few minutes with them and kicked it around a bit. Oh, and there will be some more videos of their mineral oil experience coming up – so check back often…