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Hailing from Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville State University stayed under the radar in their first Winter Classic competition in 2022. Solid students for sure, but not a lot of HPC experience. All good. They didn’t field a team in 2023, taking a break, assumedly for re-building. But this year, Fayetteville is back with a in a…

Morehouse College? The university is well-known for their long list of illustrious graduates, the rigor of their academics, and the quality of the instruction. They were one of the first schools to sign up for the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition back in 2021 and have been a part of the event ever since.…

The latest installment of the 2024 Winter Classic Studio Update Show features our interview with the HPE mentor team who introduced our student teams to the joys (and potential sorrows) of the HPL (LINPACK) and accompanying HPCG benchmarks. (To refresh your memory on the HPL/HPCG results, click here.) This is the third year that HPE…

The first task for the 11 teams in the 2024 Winter Classic student cluster competition was to run and optimize the LINPACK and HPCG benchmarks. As usual, the results were a mixed bag. Some teams had trouble getting out of the gate and onto the leaderboard, which is entirely normal. Other teams turned in decent…

The fourth edition of the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is up and running. This year, we have 11 teams of eager students representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). They are vying to turn in the best performance numbers on a suite of six real-world HPC-AI benchmarks and…

February 14th to April 15th, it’s been a long run for the 2023 Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition. 63 students from HBCU and HSI schools learned hands-on HPC from HPE, NASA, Oak Ridge National Lab, and AWS. With luck, we’ll have many of these students looking for opportunities in our data centers, helping to refresh…

We’ll be revealing the winning teams (well, they’re all winners, but some won more than others) and the recipients of the Brueckner Award scholarships at this virtual ceremony. It will take place at 4:00 Pacific on Friday, April 14th. Here’s the link.

A wintery mix with a chance for scattered dependencies was the forecast as students tackled the NASA WRF Challenge in the 2023 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition. In this challenge, the students not only have to run WRF, but they have to build it up from scratch as well. It’s a tall mountain to…

The close of the 2023 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is coming up fast, and I have to get some material out to you, our vast viewing audience, as quickly as possible, if not quicker. I’ve been traveling a lot recently, which has delayed my reporting on the event. In this edition of the…

This is the second team from Cal State University Channel Islands and the second time the school has fielded two teams in the Winter Classic. So that’s four times all together if you’re doing the math. One of the members of this four-person team was also in the Winter Classic last year, so they have…