The University of Colorado at Boulder Receives SC10 Student Cluster Competition Fan Favorite Award

By DE Editors

The HPC Advisory Council has announced that the Student Cluster Competition team from the University of Colorado has received the Fan Favorite Award. The award was given to the team with the most votes collected from SC10 attendees throughout the three days of competition.

The Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity for universities to increase their high-performance education, experience and partnerships with commercial vendors. The HPC Advisory Council sponsored the University of Colorado throughout the entire year in order to maximize the educational opportunities and strengthen the relationship with the student team as part of the HPC Advisory Council outreach and educational programs. The council used generous donations from AMD, Dell, Fusion-io and Mellanox Technologies to provide the university with the computer systems suitable for the competition.

“The partnership with the HPC Advisory Council and the sponsoring vendors enabled the students to develop relationships within the HPC educational and vendor community and learn from the multitude of their available talent and resources,” says Doug Smith, HPC administrator for the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. “It was a pleasure to work with such a vast array of expertise and the amount our students learned in such a short period of time is invaluable to furthering their experience and careers within the HPC field.”

“One of the main goals of the HPC Advisory Council is HPC outreach and education, bringing both HPC into education and education into HPC,” says Gilad Shainer, HPC Advisory Council Chairman. “Working with the University of Colorado throughout the year was a great experience for both sides. We look forward to continuing this great collaboration and to extend our support to universities worldwide.”

The University of Colorado and the HPC Advisory Council have already agreed to continue the educational relationship through 2011,  sponsoring the team for the SC11 Student Cluster Competition.

For more information, visit the HPC Advisory Council.

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