From duct tape to tin-can communications systems, each of the 16 teams from around the world participating in this year’s Student Cluster Competition (SCC) has a secret weapon for winning the non-stop, 48-hour contest taking place in the Colorado Convention Center. Just kidding—did you really think we were going to give away their hard-won formulas […]
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Flashback Friday: A Look Back to Former Student Cluster Competition Participants
Student Cluster Competition, or SCC, now in its eleventh year, is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the SCC is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high performance computing community. Over the years, the competition has drawn teams from […]
Sixteen Teams Chosen to Compete in Student Cluster Competition at SC17
This year’s competition to feature winning teams from events in U.S., China, Germany When the SC17 conference convenes November 12 in Denver, sixteen teams of students will be on hand to compete in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC), now in its 11th year. The teams hail from across the U.S., as well as Asia and […]
SC17 Student Cluster Competition Team Deadline Extended to April 14
Students@SC: The SC17 Student Cluster Competition deadline has been extended to April 14. Don’t miss out on your chance to participate in this always popular event! Now in its 11th year, the Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC program, […]
Deadline Alert: Student Cluster Competition Deadline Approaching – April 7
Now in its 11th year, the Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the competition is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high-performance computing community, drawing teams from across the United States and around the world. […]
SC17 Student Cluster Competition to Continue Pushing for Reproducibility
By Kris Garrett, SC17 SCC Reproducibility Chair from Los Alamos National Laboratory For years, computational science research literature has relied upon computational results. While this mimics relying on experimental results in other sciences, the ability to reproduce computational results has been lacking. At SC16, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) began taking the lead in pushing […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome Boston Green Team
Boston Green Team, a joint collaboration between Boston University, Umass Boston, and MIT, chose the green theme to show that they’re committed to running code efficiently, and in doing so saving the planet and advancing the frontier of what’s possible. “We’ve experimented with green architectures in the past, at ISC we ran an 8-node NVIDIA […]
The Latest News from the Student Cluster Competition in Salt Lake City
With this year marking the tenth year of the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the SC conference, it’s a good time to look both forward to this year’s event, as well as look back at the history of this competition that has been adopted by organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. It all traces back […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University
The SC16 SCC marks the fifth time students from the University of Texas at Austin have competed and this year they are teaming up with Texas State University. To reflect their interschool association of the two schools and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), they named their group “Team Texas”, and extended the theme to […]
#SCC #SC16: Welcome Team SwanGeese from China’s University of Science and Technology
After their attendance at SC12 and SC14 China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) “SwanGeese” team is making their third appearance in the SC conference Student Cluster Competition this year. In traditional Chinese culture, the rare Swan Goose stands for teamwork, perseverance and bravery. Since these spirits well represent the characteristics of the team, and […]
