Since 2007, the cluster competitions have been instrumental in providing hands-on training for the next generation in HPC. Students are exposed to technologies and processes that inspire them to seek their role within the HPC community, while learning the interconnectedness between hardware, software, and applications to solve real-world problems.
The competitions create opportunities for industry, national labs, and academic institutions to work collaboratively to build the HPC community, often influencing HPC curriculum for students.
In 2007, the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) was created to help foster students in all aspects of HPC, providing opportunities for students to showcase their expertise in a friendly, spirited competition. Hosted by the Students@SC program and held at the SC Conference, the competition has traditionally drawn teams of undergraduate students from around the world.
A new virtual competition, the IndySCC, was created in 2021 with an emphasis on education for less experienced teams. In 2026, IndySCC changed it’s name to SCC Connect.
Drop downs for each year include photos and a full listing of winners, teams, benchmarks, applications, and posters.
2026
INDYSCC BECOMES SCC CONNECT
SCC enters it’s 20th year while IndySCC enters it’s 6th year with a new name, SCC Connect, to better reflect its goals of engagement, inclusion, and connection.
2025
OFFICIAL SC AWARDS
IndySCC Overall Winner is added to official SC Awards, inviting the winning team to receive award certificates along with the Student Cluster Competition Overall Winner at the Thursday Awards Ceremony.
16โ21 November 2025
St. Louis, Missouri
SCC/INDYSCC AWARDEES
SCC Overall Winner
National Taiwan University
IndySCC Overall Winner
Zhejiang University
SCC TEAMS & POSTERS
Need these poster pdf files.
Clemson University
ETH Zรผrich
Nanyang Technological University
Texas A&M University
University of Bristol
University of California, San Diego
SCC Team Profiles
SCC BENCHMARKS
High-Performance Linpack (HPL)
HPC Mixed Precision (HPL-MxP)
MLPerf Inference
SCC APPLICATIONS
Exascale Climate Emulator
Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST)
INDYSCC TEAMS
Thirty-three teams from 13 countries competed in the IndySCC at SC25:
IndySCC Team Profiles
INDYSCC BENCHMARKS
INDYSCC APPLICATIONS
17โ22 November 2024
Atlanta, Georgia
SCC AWARDEES
Tsinghua University
Highest Linpack Benchmark
Friedrich-Alexander University
National Tsing Hua University
Peking University
University of California San Diego
University of Helsinki / Aalto University
University of New Mexico
Mystery Benchmark
NAMD
ICON
Nineteen teams from 5 countries competed in the IndySCC at SC24:
INDYSCC APPLICATION
Mystery Application
12โ17 November 2023
Denver, Colorado
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Peking University (181.9 Teraflops)
Boston University / Brown University / UMass Boston
New York University
ShanghaiTech University
University of Kansas
HPC Conjugate Gradient (HPCG)
STREAM (optional)
OSU (optional)
MPAS (Atmosphere Core)
3DMHD (Three-Dimensional Magento Hydro Dynamic)
Reproducibility Challenge
Arizona State University
Colorado School of Mines
CSC
CUHK SZ
Durham University
Georgia Institute of Technology
IU/Purdue
Jackson State University
Nanchang University NCU SCC
SUStech SCT
Texas A&M
UC Santa Cruz
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Wake Forest University
?
Mystery Application ?
13โ18 November 2022
Dallas, Texas
University of California, San Diego (114.26 Teraflops)
Friedrich-Alexander Universitรคt
MIT / Boston University / Northeastern University
Prairie View A&M University / California State University, Channel Islands
Purdue University / Indiana University
Southeast University
Sun Yat-sen University
Universith of Texas at Austin
LINPACK (HPL)
HPCG
IO500
AI (MLPerf Inference with RetinaNet)
PHASTA
LAMMPS
CSC/LUT University / Tampere University / University of Helsinki / Aalto University
Monash University
Southern University of Science and Technology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Universitas Indonesia
University of Texas, El Paso
LINPACK
miniVite
2021
ADVENT OF INDYSCC
The IndySCC is conceived as a new cluster competition serving as a gateway to the SCC for less experienced teams. The remote 48-hour contest took place the weekend before SC21. (Is this really true or did this really start in 22?)
14โ18 November 2021
Overall Winner
Tsinghua University (?)
Southern University of Science and Technology (280 Teraflops)
Info from SC21 website. Maybe needs full review what actually happened and goes here?
Boston University / Boston College / University of Massachusetts Lowel
Cardioid
Quantum ESPRESSO
INDYSCC TEAMS (?)
Texas A&M University / Prairie View A&M
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
INDYSCC BENCHMARK
HPCG Benchmark
GROMACS
John the Ripper
2020
SCC GOES VIRTUAL
SCC becomes the Virtual Student Cluster Competition (VSCC) to accommodate remote participants due to the pandemic.
HOSTED WEBINARS
SCC begins hosting informational webinars, made available to VSCC participants on the SC Conference Series YouTube channel.
9โ19 November 2020
Virtual Event
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitรคt
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Boston University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
University of Illinois
University of Texas
University of Warsaw
Parallel Computing with Climate Models
Gromacs
2019
ANOTHER MILESTONE
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17โ22 November 2019
AWARDEES
TEAMS
Nanyang Technological Unversity
Oak Ridge National Laboratory / University of Tennessee / Pellissippi State Community College / Maryville College
Purdue University
University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign
University of Tartu / Riga Technical University
University of Warsaw / Warsaw University of Technology
University of Washington
BENCHMARKS
APPLICATIONS
VPIC
SST
Power Shutoff Activity
11โ16 November 2018
Illinois Institute of Technology
Laney College
Telkom University
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Warsaw / ลรณdลบ University of Technology / Warsaw University of Technology
Parallel Deep Learning with Horovod
OpenMC
12โ17 November 2017
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitรคt / Technical University of Munich
Georgia Insistute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology / Maine South High School / Adlai E. Stevenson High School
University of Massachusetts Boston / University of Massachusetts Lowell / Harvard University
San Diego State University / Southwestern Oklahoma State University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Science and Technology of China
University of Texas at Austin / Texas State University
University of Utah
MrBayes
Born
Cloud Component
2016
REPRODUCIBILITY CHALLENGE
For the first time, one of the applications presented to the teams is the Reproducibility Challenge, in which students attempt to reproduce results from an accepted paper from the prior year’s Papers program.
13โ18 November 2016
Salt Lake City, Utah
Boston University / University of Massachusetts Boston / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Northeastern University / Auburn University
San Diego State University
Technische Universitรคt Mรผnchen
Universidad EAFIT
Distributed Password Auditing/Recovery
Paraview
ParConnect
15โ20 November 2015
Austin, Texas
Arizona Tri-University Team
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
University of Oklahoma
BENCHMARK
Trinity
WRF
MILC
HPC Repast
16โ21 November 2014
New Orleans, Louisiana
University of Texas at Austin
Boston University / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Northeastern University
Freidrich-Alexander-Universitรคt
iVEC
National University of Singapore
University of Tennessee
HPCC
ADCIRC
Enzo
HPL
Matlab
18โ21 November 2013
National University of Defense Technology
Massachusetts Green HPC Center
University of Colorado
University of the Pacific
Graphlab
NEMO5
2012
10โ16 November 2012
National University of Defense Technology (8.224 Teraflops)
Texas Tech University
CAM
pFlotran
QMCPack
12โ18 November 2011
Seattle, Washington
Lobachevsky University(1.93 Teraflops)
Boston University
Lobachevsky University
Tecnolรณgico de Costa Rica
GADGET
PFA
POP
13โ19 November 2010
(1.07 Teraflops)
No site was hacked awhile ago.
Florida A&M University
Louisiana State University
Stony Brook University
Password Cracking
FLASH
14โ20 November 2009
Portland, Oregon
(692 Gigaflops)
CHombo
NWChem
Vislt
15โ21 November 2008
Indiana University
(703 Gigaflops)
Indiana University / Technical University of Dresden
University of Alberta
GAMESS (bench or app?)
OpenFOAM
POY
RAxML
WPP
2007
FIRST SCC AT SC
Six teams compete in the inaugural Student Cluster Competition hosted by the SC Conference in Reno, Nevada.
10โ16 November 2007
Reno, Nevada
(420 Gigaflops)
No website.
POV-Ray
During the Student Cluster Competition (SCC), teams of undergraduate students build, operate, and tune powerful cluster computers.
A cluster competition with the intent to create a more education-focused track of the Student Cluster Competition.
