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With help from two Oak Ridgers, UT students finish second in supercomputing competition

Posted at 9:37 am January 12, 2015
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National Institute for Computational SciencesWith help from two Oak Ridgers, a team of students from the University of Tennessee recently captured second place at the Student Cluster Competition in New Orleans.

Part of the SC14 Supercomputing Conference, the competition is a real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge in which teams of undergraduates, high school students, or both assemble a small computer cluster on the exhibit floor and then race to demonstrate the greatest sustained performance across a series of applications while staying under a 3,120-watt power limit.

One of the team members is Erik Blokland, an Oak Ridge graduate, and the other is Vincent Jodoin, who is a junior at Oak Ridge High School and helping the team. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: computer cluster, Erik Blokland, National Institute for Computational Sciences, NICS, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge High School, SC14 Supercomputing Conference, Student Cluster Competition, supercomputing, Team VIBE, Tennessee Today, University of Tennessee, Vincent Jodoin, Vols in the Big Easy

ORHS Math Bowl team finishes second in large school competition

Posted at 12:12 pm November 9, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

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Thirty students from Oak Ridge High School competed in the annual Pro2Serv Fermat Competition and Math Bowl on Thursday, and the school’s Math Bowl A team finished second in the large school competition, a press release said.

“Our Math Bowl teams were very competitive, with our A team narrowly losing by one point,” the release said. The A team was comprised of Albert Xue, Tina Wang, and Katherine Zhang, along with alternate Sheichen Zhang.

The B team of Vincent Jodoin, Gabe Vacaliuc, and Joe Andress, with alternate Adi Sujithkumar, also had an amazing run, but came up a match short of placing, the release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Honors and Spotlight, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: A team, Adi Sujithkumar, Albert Xue, B team, Fermat 1, Fermat 2, Gabe Vacaliuc, Henry Musrock, Joe Andress, Katherine Zhang, Math Bowl, Oak Ridge High School, ORHS, Pro2Serv Fermat Competition and Math Bowl, Sheichen Zhang, Tina Wang, University of Tennessee, UTK, Vincent Jodoin

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