SC17 is excited to hold another nail-biting Student Cluster Competition, or SCC, now in its eleventh year, as an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC17’s Students@SC, the Student Cluster Competition is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high-performance computing community. Over the years, the competition has drawn teams from around the United States and around the world.
The Student Cluster Competition is an HPC multi-disciplinary experience integrated within the HPC community’s biggest gathering, the Supercomputing Conference. The competition is a microcosm of a modern HPC center that teaches and inspires students to pursue careers in the field. It demonstrates the breadth of skills, technologies and science that it takes to build, maintain and utilize a supercomputer. In this real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge, teams of undergraduate and/or high school students assemble a small cluster on the exhibit floor and race to complete a real-world workload across a series of applications and impress HPC industry judges.
Teams of six students each are selected via a team proposal
process described here: http://www.studentclustercompetition.us/2017/guidelines.html. The selected teams work with their advisor and vendor
partners to design and build a cutting-edge, commercially
available cluster constrained by the 3000-watt power limit.
This cluster should be designed to accommodate a variety of
HPC workflows. Workflows may range from being limited by CPU
performance to being memory bandwidth limited to I/O
intensive.
Email Contact: student-cluster-competition@info.supercomputing.org
Frequently updated information about the competition details, rules and information about starting a team can be found at http://www.studentclustercompetition.us.
Sponsors
The SCC is funded by the SC conference and by generous
sponsors who understand the importance of building the next
generation of HPC. If you are interested in supporting the SCC
please contact us. Support levels range from $5,000 to $25,000
and offer a variety of benefits.
The application reviews have been completed and the SC17 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) committee has invited 16 teams to compete in this year’s event in Denver Colorado. The teams hail from across the U.S., as well at Asia and Europe.
• Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen/Technical University
of Munich, Germany
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Illinois Institute of Technology/Maine South High
School/Adlai E. Stevenson High School
• MGHPCC Green Team
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Northeastern University
• Peking University, China
• San Diego State University/Southwestern Oklahoma State
University
• Tsinghua University, China (The winning team from the ASC17
Student Supercomputer Challenge and the ISC17 Student Cluster
Competition)
• University of Science and Technology of China (The winning
team from the SC16 Student Cluster Competition)
• University of Texas at Austin/Texas State University
• University of Utah
• University of Warsaw/Lodz University of Technology/Warsaw
University of Technology, Poland
• William Henry Harrison High School
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The SC17 Student Cluster Competition and the Students@SC program thanks the following organizations for their generous support
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