November 27, 2012—Congratulations to MS in Statistics student and TACC researcher John Lockman, who, along with John Cazes, led The University of Texas at Austin undergraduate team to victory in the 7th Annual Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing '12 (SC12) Conference.

The six-member team had 72 hours to design, build, optimize, and run the fastest and most efficient cluster computing system. The UT Tower was lit last night in recognition of the team's victory.

Read the full article here: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/11/20/team-claims-student-cluster-challenge-victory/

Read The Daily Texan article here: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2012/11/28/ut-students-seize-first-place-in-computing-competition