CHPC takes 2nd prize in 2015 Student Cluster Competition

On 15 July the CHPC student team took second honours at the 4th High Performance Computing Advisory Council HPCAC-International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Student Cluster Competition, , where more than 2,600 attendees and 160 exhibitors from around the globe met in Frankfurt, Germany.  

The competition featured small teams that competed to demonstrate the incredible capabilities of state-of- the-art high-performance cluster hardware and software. In a real-time challenge, 11 teams of six undergraduate and/or high school students built small clusters of their own design on the ISC exhibit floor and raced to demonstrate the greatest performance across a series of benchmarks and applications.

The students received a unique opportunity to learn, experience and demonstrate how high-performance computing influence our world and day-to-day learning. Held in collaboration with the HPCAC and ISC, the Student Cluster Competition is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high performance computing world and community.

Final results were as follows:

1st place:Tsinghua University, China
2nd place:Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC)
3rd place:University of Science and Technology of China
Highest LINPACK performance:Jamia Millia Islamia University, India
Fan favourite:Purdue University & Universidad EAFIT