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This has been an astoundingly quiet Winter Classic. And it’s all my stupid fault! I had a packed international travel schedule towards the end of WC26, plus big projects coming to a head. My body took that opportunity to attack me with a combination of pneumonia and sepsis, which took me off my wheels for…

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Meet the team, see what makes them tick.

Here’s a look at Team Rattler from Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University

Here’s a look at the 2026 Fayetteville State U House of Coders team….

Meet the team, what’s left of them, here….

Check out the team profile and their interview here

Dan Olds and Henry Newman discuss the eleven teams who will be competing in the 2026 Winter Classic Invitational and also release the results for the first competition task, the dreaded HPC Crash Course exam!

We’re finally at the end of the 81-day HPC-packed 2025 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition. We had ten teams cross the finish line to complete the competition, which is admirable given that they were dealing with full-time course loads, outside jobs, family/friends, plus everything that goes with the competition on top. We had a…

I had a great conversation with Dr. Niraj Nepal and Valerie Rossi from PSC. Dr. Nepal is a condensed matter physicist at PSC, so he’s an expert in QE and probably runs it more than I run Excel. Valerie manages educational outreach programs at PSC, and has run a few student cluster competition teams, so…