2023

This is the first time University of New Mexico has competed in any student cluster competition, but they’re definitely rising to the occasion. Currently sitting in fifth place, they’re just a handful of points out of fourth. The team is composed of four seniors and two sophomores, all majoring in computer science. They have a…

This is the second time we’ve seen a team from Morehouse College. The majority of the team is interested in cybersecurity, with one lone member looking towards machine learning as a career. Most of the members are part of the Morehouse HPC Research team, which is working with the computer science department to build their…

Hailing from El Paso, Team UTEP is competing in the Winter Classic for the third straight year, albeit with a team of newbies. This is a junior and senior team, nearly all of whom are majoring in electrical engineering. So far, the toughest task for these students was the Oak Ridge Blast Challenge, which was…

This is the second time we’ve had two teams from California State University Channel Islands. This team features not one, but two veterans from both last year’s competition, but also from SC22. They’re unique for another reason as well – they feature the very first married couple to compete in any student cluster competition, wow.…

One thing we needed for this interview – more bandwidth and lower latency, just like HPC. We interviewed three members of the FAMU team and learned how they’re learning all about HPC through hands on experience through the competition. During the conversation, we talk about student career plans, they’re an ambitious bunch. We also discuss…

We catch up with the UC Santa Cruz team live from their campus media complex, with one student coming in virtually. It’s a young team, with four freshmen, which makes them the youngest team in the tournament. In the video, we meet the team, plus one of their advisers, and learn about their backgrounds. We…

Defending Winter Classic champs Prairie View A&M are back in the competition, but with a mostly rookie team this year. Tyler Mannings, who has experience in the Winter Classic, but also as part of team TexaCal from the SC22 competition, provides cluster competition veteran experience to Team Prairie View. In the video, we talk to…

In our most recent update, “Triumph and Tragedy with HPL/HPCG”, we detailed how our dozen 2023 Winter Classic Invitational cluster competition teams dealt with their LINPACK/HPCG module, mentored by HPE. In this episode of our incredibly popular 2023 Winter Classic Studio Update Show, we interview the mentors behind the event, the folks who readied the…

HPL. HPCG. Bookends. One will show you the best possible performance from your cluster while the other will show you the worst. Running and optimizing these two foundational HPC benchmarks was the task for the twelve 2023 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition teams. The mentor organization, HPE in this case, provided the students with…

The first scoring module in the 2023 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is in the books. The Penguin Solutions HPC Pop Quiz confronted our twelve student teams with a set of questions about HPC tech, history, and current events. Some of the questions were fiendish, such as “….how much water does the Frontier system…