Purdue University

Supercomputing Cluster Challenge 2007

Reno, Nevada, US

Awards

• Runner Up

Team Members

• Alex Younts
• Andy Howard
• David Matthews
• Donghan Ryu
• Josh Wildey
• Richard Miller
• Tae-Sook Yoon
• Trent Nelson

Team Advisors

• Preston Smith
• Dr. Jeffrey Evans

Sponsors

• HP

Hardware

• 13 nodes
• 2 x dual-core AMD Opteron 2216
• 4GB RAM per node
• Voltaire DDR Infiniband Interconnect

Publications

• Undergraduate Experience in Clustering at the SC07 Cluster Challenge (Alexander Younts, Andrew Howard, Preston M. Smith, Jeffrey J. Evans) In the proceedings of the 9th LCI International Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing (April 28-May 1, 2008) Urbana, IL

Promotional Materials

• Baseball Cards (4.69 MB)
• Comic Book (3.41 MB)
• Poster for the Booth (3.49 MB)

News

• "SC07 Holds First Cluster Challenge", HPC Wire, 2008-09-25
• "Class papers become prize winners for supercomputer-building Purdue students", RCAC News, 2008-08-13
• "SC07 Cluster Challenge Showcases Accessible Computing Tools", ACM Press Room, 2008-01-08