At an awards ceremony near the close of ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, this week, attendees cheered as Team South Africa took to the stage to collect their third HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition championship prize from HPC luminary Thomas Sterling. “I have to say that this is extraordinary,” said Sterling, who was helping officiate along with Gilad Shainer (of Mellanox). “Last year, I said those South African teams are pretty good. They came in second last year and first the two times before that. This is a remarkable performance.” The win marked quite the accomplishment for the team, which had support from their home institution, the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC); their sponsors Dell and Mellanox; and the community at large. The student team lineup includes Andries Bingani, Ashley Naudé, Avraham Bank, Craig Bester, Sabeehah Ismail, and Leanne Johnson. The road to becoming three-time ISC 2016 cluster champions kicked into gear with a first-place finish in the annual SA-SCC event, under guidance of team supervisors David Macleod and Matthew Cawood, both of CHPC. To read more head over to http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/06/23/south-africa-team-scores-third-isc-scc-win/