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<div>ISEF = International Science and Engineering Fair – lots of really bright high school students..</div>
<div><a href="http://www.societyforscience.org/intelisef2013">http://www.societyforscience.org/intelisef2013</a></div>
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<div>Anyway.. </div>
<div>A few projects looking at interconnect topologies (comparing a novel strategy for generating hierarchical interconnects against mesh/toroid/etc.)</div>
<div>A few projects where they ported something onto some graphics card as an accelerator.</div>
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<div>A fair number (a dozen?) which used a cluster to do something computationally intensive. Some of the clusters were pretty small (e.g. 8 nodes) so a good example of making do with what is cheap and available.</div>
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<div>10-15 years ago, I doubt there were any projects that were Beowulf related (except perhaps something analyzing the book or linguistics)</div>
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<div>So, Beowulfs are definitely mainstream, if they're being used as a "utility" by talented high school students.</div>
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