SCC – SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:04:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 120047766 Secrets of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/11/07/secrets-sc17-student-cluster-competition/ Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:15:46 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=6735 From duct tape to tin-can communications systems, each of the 16 teams from around the world participating in this year’s Student Cluster Competition (SCC) has a secret weapon for winning the non-stop, 48-hour contest taking place in the Colorado Convention Center. Just kidding—did you really think we were going to give away their hard-won formulas […]

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]]> 6735 Flashback Friday: A Look Back to Former Student Cluster Competition Participants http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/08/18/flashback-friday-a-look-back-to-former-student-cluster-competition-participants/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:48:34 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5852 Student Cluster Competition, or SCC, now in its eleventh year, is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the SCC is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high performance computing community. Over the years, the competition has drawn teams from […]

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]]> 5852 Sixteen Teams Chosen to Compete in Student Cluster Competition at SC17 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/05/04/sixteen-teams-chosen-to-compete-in-student-cluster-competition-at-sc17/ Thu, 04 May 2017 21:15:37 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5336 This year’s competition to feature winning teams from events in U.S., China, Germany When the SC17 conference convenes November 12 in Denver, sixteen teams of students will be on hand to compete in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC), now in its 11th year. The teams hail from across the U.S., as well as Asia and […]

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]]> 5336 SC17 Student Cluster Competition Team Deadline Extended to April 14 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/04/11/student-cluster-competition-deadline-extended-april-14/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 17:04:39 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5240 Students@SC: The SC17 Student Cluster Competition deadline has been extended to April 14. Don’t miss out on your chance to participate in this always popular event! Now in its 11th year, the Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC program, […]

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]]> 5240 Deadline Alert: Student Cluster Competition Deadline Approaching – April 7 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/03/31/deadline-alert-student-cluster-competition-deadline-approaching-april-7/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:02:44 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5215 Now in its 11th year, the Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the competition is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high-performance computing community, drawing teams from across the United States and around the world. […]

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]]> 5215 SC17 Student Cluster Competition to Continue Pushing for Reproducibility http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2017/03/24/sc17-student-cluster-competition-to-continue-pushing-for-reproducibility/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:21:50 +0000 http://sc17.supercomputing.org/?p=5187 By Kris Garrett, SC17 SCC Reproducibility Chair from Los Alamos National Laboratory For years, computational science research literature has relied upon computational results. While this mimics relying on experimental results in other sciences, the ability to reproduce computational results has been lacking. At SC16, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) began taking the lead in pushing […]

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]]> 5187 #SCC #SC16: Welcome Boston Green Team http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/15/scc-sc16-welcome-team-boston-green/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:46:11 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4731 Boston Green Team, a joint collaboration between Boston University, Umass Boston, and MIT, chose the green theme to show that they’re committed to running code efficiently, and in doing so saving the planet and advancing the frontier of what’s possible. “We’ve experimented with green architectures in the past, at ISC we ran an 8-node NVIDIA […]

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]]> 4731 The Latest News from the Student Cluster Competition in Salt Lake City http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/14/latest-news-student-cluster-competition-salt-lake-city/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 00:53:22 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4709 With this year marking the tenth year of the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the SC conference, it’s a good time to look both forward to this year’s event, as well as look back at the history of this competition that has been adopted by organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa. It all traces back […]

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]]> 4709 #SCC #SC16: Welcome to “Team Texas” from University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/12/scc-sc16-welcome-team-texas-university-texas-austintexas-state-university/ Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:35:51 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4568 The SC16 SCC marks the fifth time students from the University of Texas at Austin have competed and this year they are teaming up with Texas State University. To reflect their interschool association of the two schools and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), they named their group “Team Texas”, and extended the theme to […]

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]]> 4568 #SCC #SC16: Welcome Team SwanGeese from China’s University of Science and Technology http://sc17.supercomputing.org/2016/11/10/scc-sc16-welcome-team-swangeese-chinas-university-science-technology/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:00:41 +0000 http://sc16.supercomputing.org/?p=4514 After their attendance at SC12 and SC14 China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) “SwanGeese” team  is making their third appearance in the SC conference Student Cluster Competition this year. In traditional Chinese culture, the rare Swan Goose stands for teamwork, perseverance and bravery. Since these spirits well represent the characteristics of the team, and […]

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