ISC 2016 Purdue/Colorado Team
HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition 2016
Frankfurt, Germany
Team Members
- Austyn Cousins
- Brandon Stewart
- Danny Brill
- Emma Wynne
- Kaleb Bodisch
- Samm Elliott
Team Advisors
- Lev Gorenstein
- Chuck Schwarz
- Doug Smith
Sponsors
Hardware
- 10 Nodes
- 2 x Intel Xeon Haswell E5 per node
- 64 GB of memory per node
- Mellanox EDR Infiniband interconnect
Promotional Materials
- Poster about the team and the cluster
- Custom-made Google Cardboard stereoscopic glasses (thank you, Purdue Envision Center, for a wonderful design!)
- Demo videos of Splotch cosmological visualizations generated by the team:
- 3D video of a galactic fly-through (C. Schwarz)
- 360° video of a galactic fly-through (C. Schwarz, G. Takahashi)
News
- "Points tables unveiled: Who needs sport? Follow HPC kids' summer cluster cup final", The Register, 2016-06-30
- "South Africa Team Claims Third ISC Student Cluster Championship", HPCwire, 2016-06-23
- "Student supercomputing team from Purdue, Colorado competes in Germany", Purdue IT News, 2016-06-08