Communications of the ACM
Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge Emphasizes Applications, Scalability
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The 2014 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC14), which is taking place this week at Sun Yat-sen University's Guangzhou Supercomputer Center, aims to promote both fundamental and practical technology, improve students' ability to tackle actual problems, motivate student interest in supercomputing, and encourage students to meet with international peers.
ASC14, organized by the HPC Advisory Council, the International Supercomputing, and China HSS Lab, held preliminary contests earlier this year to find a group of 16 finalist teams. As part of the competition, each team must build its own mini supercomputer with a 3,000-watt power budget and configure it to run the LINPACK benchmark in addition to three scientific applications. The competition committee also will announce a secret application after the competition has started, which the teams will have to configure to scale and run on the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. The team that obtains the highest scalability and performance optimization of supercomputer applications will be awarded a prize.
ASC14 differs from other Student Cluster Competitions in that all the teams must assemble clusters from stock parts provided by the challenge organizer.
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