In a couple of hours, I’ll be waking up to catch a flight to Reno, by way of L.A. That’s right folks, behold the efficiency of the American Airlines flight scheduler. Anyway, in Reno, my teammates and I will…wait, what? Teammates?
Right, so in the past month or so, a groups of us undergrads here at Stony Brook University have been building a kick-ass supercomputing cluster. That’s right, tens of thousands dollars worth of equipment, with Debian, NFS, Infiniband, Xeons, and more, to create a truly powerful computing cluster, capable of rendering pollen particles, simulating molecules and oceans, and defeating benchmarks in a single bound. I’ve been busy helping make it all happen.
We’ve been preparing for the SC07 Cluster Challenge, an event to be held next week in Reno, on the SC07 conference floor. Six teams of eager undergrads will be competing to run the benchmarks faster, and to impress the judges more. Wish Stony Brook luck!
