In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC (http://radiofreehpc.com/) team previews the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition (https://www.isc-hpc.com/student-cluster-competition.html?)."Now in its seventh year, the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition (https://www.isc-hpc.com/student-cluster-competition.html?) enables international STEM teams to take part in a real-time contest focused on advancing STEM disciplines and HPC skills development at ISC 2018 from June 25-27. To take home top honors, twelve teams will have the opportunity to showcase systems of their own design, adhering to strict power constraints and achieve the highest performance across a series of standard HPC benchmarks and applications."After that, Rich describes a number of ancillary events have been scheduled in Frankfurt.Events in chronological order:* HP-CAST (http://www.hp-cast.org/) will take place June 22-23 at the Frankfurt Marriott. HP-CAST is an organization of HPE customers and partners who provide input to HP to increase the capabilities of HP solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing.* The Dell EMC HPC Community (https://www.dellhpc.org/) will get together for a half-day meeting on Sunday, June 24 at the Frankfurt Marriott.* DDN User Group (http://storage.ddn.com/ISC-2014-User-Group.html) will be held on Monday, June 25 from 9:00am - 12:30am at the Movenpick Hotel.* D-Wave Systems (http://isc2018.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138932493) will host a seminar on Quantum Computing on Monday, June 25 starting at 2:00pm at the Frankfurt Marriott.* Intel Special Session (http://www.isc-events.com/isc15_ap/sessiondetails.htm?rd=1): Dr. Raj Hazra, Corporate Vice President at Intel, will discuss AI & HPC emerging technologies that will accelerate discovery and innovation at 6:00 pm Monday, June 25 in the Panarama 2 room at the Frankfurt Messe.* The Hyperion Research Breakfast Briefing (https://hyperionresearch.com/breakfast-briefing-in-frankfurt/) will take place on Tuesday, June 26 at 7:45am at the Grandhotel Hessischer Hof.* Univa (http://univa.com/) will host a Breakfast Seminar on Cloud HPC (http://www.univa.com/resources/univa-isc18-breakfast-briefing-hpc-in-the-cloud.php) on Wednesday, June 27 at 8:00am at the Frankfurt Marriott.* The Women in HPC network (http://womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/) is running a half day workshop (http://womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/) on Thursday, June 28.After that, we do our Catch of the Week.Download the MP3 (http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode197/RFHPC197iscPreview.mp3) * Subscribe on iTunes (http://bit.ly/WgEZzd) * RSS Feed (http://bit.ly/QXKy3V)Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/Lip0azImkVQ)