Institute-Sponsored BU Team Earns Judges’ Highest Scores at SC’11

Boston University’s Student Cluster Challenge (SCC) team was one of eight teams participating in a competition — held at the Supercomputing Convention (SC11) — to design a computer hardware and software network to demonstrate sustained performance in a series of science and engineering challenges. The BU team received the judges’ highest score but was edged out for the overall prize by the reigning champions from National Tsinghua University in Taiwan. BU’s team, sponsored by Silicon Mechanics, a HPC provider, and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, was made up of six students – Michael Abed (ECE ’14), Richard T. Black (ECE ’13), Derek J. DaSilva (CS, Questrom ’12), John-Nicholas Furst (ECE ’13), and twins, Dusan and Darko Stosic (both Physics ’14). Dan Kamalic, manager of research computing in the College of Engineering, is their coach. [Read More]