Dan Olds

In their fourth outing as a Winter Classic mentor, AWS brought in challenge that, on the surface at least, looked deceptively simple. The students were tasked with setting up a cloud instance (aided by a step-by-step guide) and then run WRF with the provided dataset. Their run had to be completed within 4:30 to be…

For the first time in any student cluster competition, student teams were challenged to work a real-life problem on a quantum simulator, quantum emulator, AND a real quantum system. Long time Winter Classic mentor Oak Ridge National Lab went above and beyond on this one, training the students up on quantum concepts and how to…

Our student teams get a lot of real-world HPC experience in the course of the three-month Winter Classic cluster competition. They get to run on five different supercomputers, are trained by HPC experts, and run/optimize real HPC/AI workloads. This is all great and it’s attracting new talent to our industry. But are they really learning…

With the HPL/HPCG challenge in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to meet the HPE mentors who made it happen. Most of the mentor crew have taken on the task in past years, but have a new coordinator this year, Elizabeth Reeve, who did a great job. The only place where she didn’t excel was in…

The first task for students in every student cluster competition? Put a stake in the ground with solid LINPACK and HPCG benchmark scores. Our Winter Classic HBCU and HIS (Hispanic Serving Institutions) teams did just that to kick off our fifth annual competition. In an HPC competition, it’s sort of like NASCAR or Formula 1…