Build-a-cluster students conjugate gradients for science and glory

Intrepid clusterers tackle a new(ish) benchmark

HPC Blog Student teams at SC16 were faced with a new(ish) benchmark during their 48-hour marathon run for the Student Cluster Competition Cup (there is no actual cup). The teams have always run the HPL (LINPACK) program, which is used to rank the TOP500 supercomputers in the world. But this year, they're also running the "book-end" HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradient) benchmark."