HPC Competition

As the only team from Texas, the Texas A&M Student Cluster Competition Team with 6 engineering undergraduates is selected, together with 14 other teams worldwide, to participate the Student Cluster Competition at 2018 Supercomputing Conference at Dallas this November.

The A&M Team will be sponsored by Dell, NVIDIA, Mellanox, and Intel together with support from TEES and HPRC.

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 supercomputers. In this real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge, teams of undergraduate and/or high school students assemble small clusters on the exhibit floor, and race to complete real-world workloads across a series of applications and impress HPC-industry judges

More information about the Student Cluster Competition at 2018 Supercomputing Conference at Dallas can be found at
http://www.studentclustercompetition.us/index.html

How do you compete in supercomputing? The students on the Texas A&M University Supercomputing Team know that’s going to be the first question before it’s even asked.

“Build. Run. Optimize,” said Dr. Jian Tao, advisor for the team and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station researcher. “You build the computer, you run programs on it and then you optimize the performance.”

They’re simple words, but the competition is anything but. Over 300 student teams from around the world entered the Asia Supercomputer Community’s Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC18), but only 20 made the cut to the finals to be held in May in China. Texas A&M’s group is not only the lone team from the United States to make the finals, it’s the only team from the entire Western Hemisphere.

More about the story can be found at TEES News