Roadrunner Follow Up: We take a walk down 2025 Winter Classic memory lane to kick off the follow up interview. It’s a pretty good journey; they held onto second through the first three modules, even with a stumble on the ORNL Quantum Challenge.
AWS threw them a bit, as they focused on optimizing WRF rather than selecting the best AWS instance for the workload. With the PSC results in now, they’re sitting in fifth place, but very close to overtaking two teams above them to land a third-place trophy finish.
We finish up by gazing into the future and it looks like these students want to continue learning about HPC and associated topics. They’ve come a long ways this year, improving their understanding and skills, but also in the things we don’t discuss that much, like time management and determination. Bright future? Absolutely…