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NASA hosted and mentored the twelve teams competing in the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition last week and we’re ready to reveal the results. The student teams competed to run and optimize three subsets of the NAS Parallel benchmarks, namely BT-MZ, SP-MZ, and the ever so challenging LU-MZ. All of the teams managed to…

The 2022 Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition is a grueling eight week marathon, combining HPC education and cutthroat competition as student teams optimize real-world HPC benchmarks and apps on mentor provided supercomputers. This competition is unique in that it exclusively features Historically Black Colleges and Universities along with Hispanic Serving Institutions, all competing for the…

Twelve teams from Historically Black and Hispanic universities are taking their first steps into HPC in the 2022 Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition. They ran the gauntlet of LINPACK and HPCG in their first challenge, running the workloads on HPE clusters and receiving HPE mentoring. Next up, they had a pop quiz covering HPC history,…

Results from the HPC Pop Quiz module in the 2022 Winter Classic cluster competition had a radical impact on the leaderboard. Quiz grades rocketed a couple of teams up the big board while others went in the opposite direction. The 20 question exam featured multiple choice questions covering HPC history, technology, and current events. Students…

As part of our continuing coverage of the 2022 Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition, we want to shine a light on the first mentor organization in the competition. Hewlett Packard Enterprise really stepped up to the plate by teaching the twelve student teams how to use a HPE/Cray cluster plus how to run and optimize…

The first results are in! Student teams turned in their HPL (LINPACK) and HPCG benchmark results and we got ’em. Twelve student teams spent last week under the tutelage of HPE learning about HPC and how to run (then optimize) HPL and HPCG. The results were outstanding. Nearly all the teams completed the task and…

In this edition of the wildly popular “2022 Winter Classic Studio Update Show”, Addison and Dan reveal the TWELVE teams who are competing in this year’s Winter Classic student cluster competition. This competition is particularly notable because it exclusively features teams from Historically Black Universities (HBUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). The competition has expanded…

February 6, 2022 The second annual Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition will begin in earnest on Monday, February 7. This competition is unique in that it exclusively features student teams from Historically Black Universities (HBUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Organized by Intersect360 Research, the competition has a radically different architecture than other cluster competitions.…

It’s finally time to meet the rest of the field in the increasingly misnamed “Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition.” Covid has played hell with our schedule and really made it difficult for the teams and mentors to get organized. But we are moving forward despite the stupid virus, which is a testament to the…