Super Computing 2010 Cluster Challenge

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In the cluster challenge, a team of undergrads spends 72 hours getting a cluster running, running linpack benchmark and optimizing applications.

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Send an email to sc10cc@isaac.lsu.edu answering the following questions:

• Title
• Team Information (team institute, member names, vendor partners)
• Why are you participating?
• Why do you believe you've put together a winning team (diversity of skills, team work, experience of members)?
• How will your team work together to tune and optimize the application set?
• System Configuration: Provide a general overview of your anticipated hardware and software configuration and why you believe that the system described is appropriate for the challenge.
• What demonstrations your team proposes to show-off your cluster skills during the showcase portion of the competition?
• To be written by team Supervisor: What instruction and/or curricula changes are being made (temporarily or permanent) to facilitate the teaching of cluster computing at your institution?

I am not sure the answers to most of these. I am negotiating with IBM to suypply Power7 technology. If that works out -- great. If not, we will shoot for any combo of classic x86 hardware.

Kathy and I will take the submitted answers and produce a unified documetn for submission.