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Student Teams Vie in ASC Supercomputer Challenge
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More than 300 university teams from five continents helped kick off the preliminary round of the 2020-2021 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge on November 16, 2020. Over the next two months, they will be challenged in several cutting-edge applications of supercomputing and AI. The 20 teams that clear the preliminaries will participate in the finals starting May 8, 2021 at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China.
The registered participants include three prior champion teams: the SC19/SC20 champion team of Tsinghua University, the ISC20 champion team of University of Science and Technology of China, and the ASC19 champion of National Tsing Hua University. Among the competitors are teams from the University of Washington, University of Warsaw, Ural Federal University, Monash University, and EAFIT University.
Tasks for the preliminary round include a quantum computing simulation and language exam tasks, plus a cutting-edge task in astronomy — searching for pulsars.
The quantum computing simulation task will require each participating team to use the QuEST (Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit) running on computer cluster to simulate 30 qubits in two cases: quantum random circuits (random.c), and quantum fast Fourier transform circuits (GHZ_QFT.c). Quantum simulations provide a reliable platform for the study of quantum algorithms, which are particularly important because quantum computers are not practically available.
The Language Exam task will require all participating teams to train AI models on an English Cloze Test dataset, striving to achieve the highest "test scores." The dataset covers multiple levels of English language tests used in China.
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