The Reg HPC: Red-hot students, an all-day romp and an £11,000 bonanza [ Thu May 2 2013]

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SGI tax bennies push bigger profit in Q1
Wraps up LMDs of profit destruction, shows decent sales growth
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/01/sgi_q3_f2013_numbers/

Jorge Titinger, the CEO who was brought into Silicon Graphics last year
to clean up the mess made by $87m in low-margin deals that wrecked the
company's bottom line for a few quarters, is probably breathing a
little easier now that the most recent quarter has ended. Not just
because revenues were up, but because the remaining $50m in those LMDs
of profit destruction have been booked.

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Cray peddles more iron than expected in Q1
Not enough to keep it from booking a loss, though
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/30/cray_q1_2012_numbers/

It is tough to find a choppier business than the supercomputer market,
and Cray CEO Peter Ungaro had to remind Wall Street once again to not
judge the company on a single quarter, and particularly on the first
quarter that it has just turned in.

While the company's top line was a little better than expected, issues
with the global economy and US federal government spending continue to
make academic, government, and corporate supercomputer centers jumpy.

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Red-hot students, an all-day romp and an £11,000 bonanza
Yup, China's cluster-crafting combat contest concludes
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/30/china_cluster_combat_concluded/

Red-hot cluster-building students from Tsinghua University in Beijing
stepped up their already high-level game - and took two of the three
awards up for grabs at the inaugural Asia Student Cluster Challenge
(ASC'13) finals last week in Shanghai.

ASC'13 is the first leg in 2013's Student Cluster Competition Triple
Crown - a long-running contest that pits undergraduates against the
clock to build benchmark-smashing machines, with cash and power supply
budgets.

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It's a CLUSTER-OFF: Asian students prep for tense, live HPC smackdown
$16k top prize and cluster-boffin glory up for grabs
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/19/asia_student_cluster_challenge/

The first annual Asia Student Cluster Challenge (ASCC) culminates this
week with a final round of competition that brings 10 university teams
to Shanghai for a live cluster-off. The teams traveling to Shanghai
made it past 32 other universities vying to compete in the live finale.

Teams will compete for top benchmark scores on three HPC workloads
including the LINPACK benchmark and the Gromacs molecular dynamics
package. The third applications, BSDE option pricing (a Monte Carlo
calculation), requires students to use Intel's Phi accelerator to
compute results.

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