"A team of undergraduates from the University of Alberta, Canada, won the inaugural Supercomputing cluster challenge, a three-day cluster-building marathon, during the SC07 (International Conference For High Performance Computing, Networking, and Analysis) held at Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Nevada,USA on November 10-16, 2007. Competing teams assembled small clusters on the exhibit floor, running benchmarks and applications selected by industry and high performance computing veterans.
Power consumption was limited: each team was allowed just a single 26 amp, 110 volt circuit. Clusters were judged on the speed of benchmarks and throughput of application runs.
The University of Alberta’s winning system was a 64-core (Xeon 2.66GHz) system with 20Gbit InfiniBand and 16GB of memory running Scientific Linux. The competition was designed to show how accessible clusters have become: the systems built by the student teams would have been considered top-of-the-line super computers just ten years ago."
Sources:
1. http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000797#cluster
2. http://sc07.supercomputing.org/
Sources:
1. http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000797#cluster
2. http://sc07.supercomputing.org/
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