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Air Power: Airbus 319 flight to YEG, with power
January 29 2008
Recently, I had the pleasure of flying from Vacouver, BC, to Edmonton, Alberta on an airbus 319. I was delighted to find a 110 V AC power outlet in the seat back in front of me. Having never seen... read moreTeam Canada Wins the Cluster Challenge
November 16 2007
A day late, but the team from Canada under the supervision of Dr. Paul Lu has won the SC07 Cluster Challenge. Teams were scored on a combination of HPC Challenge benchmark results, application data set completions and an interview with the judges. For a first run of this event, the results… read moreSC07 Cluster Challenge - day one
November 13 2007
Last night teams were given a green flag and set off on the 44 hour race. All teams completed the HPCC benchmarks by 1:00am and results were handed in to the judges. Teams were then given data sets for GAMESS, POP, and POVRay, and will spend the rest of the… read moreSC07 Cluster Challenge - race day
November 12 2007
After almost a year of preparation by the committee, a week of on-site infrastructure setup, and 2 days of on-site prep for the teams: we are finally at race day! Tonight at about 8pm at the SC07 conference in Reno, we will officially kick-off the first attempt to build and race… read moreSC07 Cluster Challenge - getting ready
November 11 2007
The Cluster Challenge at SC07 is in the preparation phase, with all 6 teams and their hardware on site in Reno Nevada. In a little over a day, the teams will begin a 44 hour computational competition (called the SC07 Cluster Challenge). We have 4 teams from the US: Purdue,… read moreSC07 Cluster Challenge - introduction
November 07 2007
The SuperComputing 2007 (SC07) Cluster Challenge invites teams of students to Reno mid-November to compete in a demonstration of talent, technology and entry-level supercomputing. The activity seeks to highlight the gains in hardware performance, ease of use of clusters and the power and availability of simulation software. A half-rack (a… read more
