University Teams To Vie for Supercomputing Championship
Eleven university-based teams from around the world
will
compete against each other this summer to build the best cluster of
supercomputers.
The teams were recently announced for the HPCAC-ISC 2015
Student
Cluster Competition to be held during the ISC
2015 conference July 13-15 in
Frankfurt, Germany. Formerly known at the International Supercomputing
Conference, the competition at ISC 2015 will be held in conjunction with
the High
Performance Computing Advisory Council (HPCAC).
In a real-time challenge, the teams of six
undergraduate
students each will build clusters of computers that they have designed
on the
trade show's exhibit floor and attempt to demonstrate the greatest
performance with
a series of predetermined challenges and benchmarks.
The 11 teams include:
Teams will prepare in advance of the July competition
by
consulting with instructors and computer vendors to design and build the
computer clusters using guidelines that call for the use of commercially
available components not to exceed certain power limits. A predetermined
set of
high performance computer applications will be required.
"This is an opportunity to showcase the world's
brightest
computer science students' expertise in a friendly, yet spirited,
competition,"
said ISC Group Managing Director Martin Meuer. "We wish all the teams
good
luck."
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.