Student Cluster Competition – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 Secrets of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/11/07/secrets-sc17-student-cluster-competition/ Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:15:46 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6735 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 […]

The post Secrets of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on SC17.

]]> 6735 Flashback Friday: A Look Back to Former Student Cluster Competition Participants http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/08/18/flashback-friday-a-look-back-to-former-student-cluster-competition-participants/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:48:34 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5852 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 […]

The post Flashback Friday: A Look Back to Former Student Cluster Competition Participants appeared first on SC17.

]]> 5852 SC17 Volunteer Dustin Leverman Profile: A Unique Route to HPC Systems http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/04/20/sc17-volunteer-dustin-leverman-profile-unique-route-hpc-systems/ Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:32:23 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5295 When Dustin Leverman was growing up, he likely didn’t imagine that his interest in machines would someday turn into a career at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. But since childhood, he has been curious about how things work. “When I was little, my dad would give me something like a flashlight, and […]

The post SC17 Volunteer Dustin Leverman Profile: A Unique Route to HPC Systems appeared first on SC17.

]]> 5295 SC17 Student Cluster Competition Team Deadline Extended to April 14 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/04/11/student-cluster-competition-deadline-extended-april-14/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:04:39 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5240 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, […]

The post SC17 Student Cluster Competition Team Deadline Extended to April 14 appeared first on SC17.

]]> 5240 Deadline Alert: Student Cluster Competition Deadline Approaching – April 7 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/03/31/deadline-alert-student-cluster-competition-deadline-approaching-april-7/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:02:44 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5215 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. […]

The post Deadline Alert: Student Cluster Competition Deadline Approaching – April 7 appeared first on SC17.

]]> 5215 SC17 Student Cluster Competition to Continue Pushing for Reproducibility http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/03/24/sc17-student-cluster-competition-to-continue-pushing-for-reproducibility/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:21:50 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5187 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 […]

The post SC17 Student Cluster Competition to Continue Pushing for Reproducibility appeared first on SC17.

]]> 5187 Submitting a Technical Paper to SC17? Participate in the SC17 Reproducibility Initiative! http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/02/07/submitting-a-technical-paper-to-sc17-participate-in-the-sc17-reproducibility-initiative/ http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/02/07/submitting-a-technical-paper-to-sc17-participate-in-the-sc17-reproducibility-initiative/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:05:35 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=4899 Background: Many computational science community members recognize the need for improving our ability to assure the trustworthiness of computational results.  At the same time, significant impediments make the goal difficult to realize.  Through its reproducibility initiative, the SC conference series is committed to enabling better reproducibility of computational results. SC16: The Beginning SC16 introduced the […]

The post Submitting a Technical Paper to SC17? Participate in the SC17 Reproducibility Initiative! appeared first on SC17.

]]> http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/02/07/submitting-a-technical-paper-to-sc17-participate-in-the-sc17-reproducibility-initiative/feed/ 1 4899 The Latest News from the Student Cluster Competition in Salt Lake City http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/14/latest-news-student-cluster-competition-salt-lake-city/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:53:22 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4709 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 […]

The post The Latest News from the Student Cluster Competition in Salt Lake City appeared first on SC17.

]]> 4709 #SCC #SC16: Welcome to Northeastern University/Auburn University http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/13/scc-sc16-welcome-northeastern-universityauburn-university/ Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:57:43 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4662 Although they’re teaming up for the first time, the team from Northeastern University/Auburn University is not entirely new to the SCC. Two-thirds of the team was at SCC at SC15 in Austin last year and that was their first experience with the conference and competition, as well as with HPC in general. The other third […]

The post #SCC #SC16: Welcome to Northeastern University/Auburn University appeared first on SC17.

]]> 4662 #SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/12/scc-sc16-welcome-team-texas-university-texas-austintexas-state-university/ Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:35:51 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4568 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 […]

The post #SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University appeared first on SC17.

]]> 4568