2023

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.

Hands off keyboards, the last computational challenge in the 2023 Winter Classic student cluster competition has been completed, the scores have been compiled, tallied, and then compiled again just to make sure. (BREAKING NEWS:  The Winter Classic Gala Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday, 4/14, at 4:00 pm Pacific. Here’s the link to the…

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…

Team Jackson State maybe be small with only three members, but they are enthusiastic, as you’ll see in the video. They also have a smallish computer science department with 159 students, which makes it even cooler that they’re competing in the Winter Classic, right? The team is composed of two seniors and a junior, all…

This is a small team with only three members. However, all three members are graduate students in computer science, which makes a big difference. This is the first time that Cal Poly has competed in any cluster competition and they’re doing a great job so far. Nailing down second place in the HPC Pop Quiz…

The Texas Tech Matadors were in the Winter Classic last year, but the team this year is entirely new. This junior/senior mixed team came to play. They’re currently sitting pretty in third with only two more scoring events (AWS and the interview) to go. Their best event so far has been LINPACK, where they finished…

This is the second year that Texas Tech University has formed a Red Raiders team for the Winter Classic. It’s an interesting team, all seniors, with a couple of entrepreneurs who have written their own apps, but didn’t have VC’s toss them millions of dollars in cash, awwws… The other two students are interested in…