2022

Barnburner. Slugfest. Photo finish. Just a few cliches to let you know what’s coming up as we break down the finish of the 2022 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition. Twelve teams from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions battled for the Winter Classic championship from early February until the final judging…

If you want to learn how Prairie View blew the field away with OpenFOAM, take a look at our interview with the AWS mentors below. Our guests include Neil Ashton, Evan Bollig, Heidi Poxon, and former ASC/ISC student cluster competition competitor (Team Boston) Sean Smith. They reveal all and were highly impressed with the teams,…

When we first lined up AWS to host the final computational event in the 2022 Winter Classic student cluster competition, we figured that by this time in the event that the drama would be over. One team would have pulled ahead and there’d be some distance between teams in the rest of the field. We…

We interviewed the mentors from Oak Ridge National Lab and learned all about their machine learning challenge. They spoke to the task and how well the students coped with it (pretty well, as it turns out), plus discussed other outreach activities they’ll be driving in the near future.

2022 Winter Classic – Oak Ridge Results Revealed! The 2022 Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition is turning out to be one of the tightest student cluster competitions ever. This event, which started in early February, pits student teams from twelve Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions against each other to see…

In this next episode, we had Kevin Jorrison, Distinguished HPC Cloud Architect at Oracle, as a guest commentator. In this episode, we discussed Oracle’s participation in the competition, why they’re involved, and got his take on the Big Board. As always, we had an interesting and fun conversation. Give it a watch by clicking below….

The 2022 Winter Classic continues – more than halfway done at this point with the students working away at Oak Ridge and running on their Ascend cluster – which has the same configuration as Summit. We’ll have ORLN scores next week and, the week after, the students take on AWS for what promises to be…

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,…