Teams Selected for Student Cluster Competition
The
HPC Advisory Council (HPCAC) and the
International
Supercomputing
Conference (ISC) have selected teams for the HPCAC-ISC
2014
Student Cluster Competition, which will take place
in Leipzig,
Germany in June 2014.
The 11 competing universities include:
- Ulsan
National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea;
- A combined team of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), Bentley
University and Northeastern University (NEU), United States;
- The University
of Edinburgh (EPCC), United Kingdom;
- Chemnitz
University of Technology, Germany;
- University
of Hamburg, Germany;
- University of São
Paulo, Brazil;
- University of
Colorado Boulder, United States;
- A university to be determined in a run-off competition via the Centre
for High Performance Computing (CHPC), South Africa;
- University of
Science and Technology of China (USTC), China; and
- Two additional university teams from China to be determined in a
run-off competition via Inspur
in early 2014.
The teams of undergraduate students will compete in a real-time
challenge to "build a small cluster of their own design on the ISC'14
exhibit floor and race to demonstrate the greatest performance across a
series of benchmarks and applications," according to information from
HPCAC and ISC. In preparation for the competition, team members will
work with supervisors and vendor partners to design and build a
high-performance computing cluster from commercially available
components and to learn the HPC applications required for the
competition.
"The HPCAC-ISC Student Cluster Competition is designed to introduce the
next generation of students to the international high-performance
computing community," said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory
Council, in a prepared statement.
More than 20 universities applied for acceptance into the competition,
but only 11 were selected. "We hope to be able to host more
universities in future competitions," said Shainer.
Further information about the ISC'14 Student Cluster Competition can be
found on the HPC Advisory Council's site, and a video of the 2013
competition can be found on
YouTube.
About the Author
Leila Meyer is a technology writer based in British Columbia. She can be reached at [email protected].