The Reg HPC: 'Computer GEEKS' snatch NOBEL Prize for chemistry - without using chemicals [ Thu Oct 17 2013]

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How were your hols, cluster kids? Oh, partied, studied... did we
mention WE BUILT DRONES
American college students get greased up for Big Iron battle
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/16/american_teams_line_up_to_defend_cluster_cup/

Among the five teams who will be defending America's Big Iron honour at
the upcoming Student Cluster Competition (SCC) are a few students who
skipped the keg parties to, er, build, fly, program and optimise the
performance of unmanned aerial vehicles.

These students will do battle, beginning on 18 November at the SC13
conference, in a competition which pits university undergraduates
against each other to design, tune and optimise clustered systems to
see who can serve up the highest performance while using only 26 amps
of electricity*.

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Students schlep from afar to join the quest for international HPC glory
El Reg profiles this year's overseas cluster confab entrants
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/14/aussies_germans_and_chinese_invade_denver/

Three teams of students will be jetting in from overseas to enter this
year's Student Cluster Competition, due to kick off on November 18 at
the annual SC13 Supercomputing Conference.</p?

The teams will be competing in the Big Iron division where
undergraduate students design, build, and tune their very own HPC
clusters. They'll be running HPC benchmarks and scientific applications
to see which team has the fastest system and has done the best job of
learning about scientific computing.

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Students prep for battle of wits, MIPs and watts: It's student
cluster-wrestling time
Kids face off against HPC industry professionals
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/11/student_cluster_wars_reboot/

The countdown is on. Twelve university teams are preparing for another
epic battle at the student cluster-wrestling match, the SC13 Student
Cluster Competition (SCC).

The gig will take place during the 2013 Supercomputing Conference in
Denver, Colorado, beginning 18 November.

The teams will compete on the SC13 exhibition hall to see whose
supercomputer is the fastest on a variety of HPC benchmarks and
workloads. There are two competition tracks this year: Big Iron and
Commodity Iron.

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'Computer GEEKS' snatch NOBEL Prize for chemistry - without using
chemicals
Balls and sticks? Bubbling beakers? Old hat
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/forget_test_tubes_computer_modeling_scoops_chemists_nobel_prize/

Three chemists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in their field, not
for arcane experiments with bubbling beakers but for writing software
to make computers do all the hard work.

"In the 1970s, Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel laid
the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand
and predict chemical processes," said the Swedish Royal Academy of
Sciences in a statement announcing the award.

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