This year’s ISC’16 Student Cluster Competition boasts the most diverse set of hardware in the near 10-year history of student cluster competitions. Student teams are running three different system architectures (x86, ARM, and Power) in both traditional and hybrid (hardware accelerated) forms. The configurations of these systems are all over the map, as is typical in these competitions. CPU core counts range from 56 on the low end to more than 800 for the ARM teams. Most of the teams seem to make use of Xeon cores, NVIDIA accelerators, and CentOS operating systems in varying configurations to achieve speed and power consumption goals. To read more head over to http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/e4-computer-engineering/