Tsinghua University
Claims Third Cluster Competition Title this Year
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| Team Diablo from Tsinghua University, the overall winners of the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. |
Team Diablo, a team of undergraduate students from Tsinghua
University in China, won the top prize in the Student Cluster Competition at
the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas. A team from Germany, Team TUMuch Phun
from the Technical University of Munich, won the award for achieving highest
performance for the Linpack benchmark.
University in China, won the top prize in the Student Cluster Competition at
the SC15 conference in Austin, Texas. A team from Germany, Team TUMuch Phun
from the Technical University of Munich, won the award for achieving highest
performance for the Linpack benchmark.
For the Tsinghua University team, this was their third win,
coming on the heels of victories at the International Supercomputing Conference
in Germany and the Asia Supercomputing Community Student Supercomputer
Challenge.
coming on the heels of victories at the International Supercomputing Conference
in Germany and the Asia Supercomputing Community Student Supercomputer
Challenge.
When they were announced as SC15 winners at the Thursday,
Nov. 19, awards session, the team let out a whoop and went to the stage to
collect their certificates.
Nov. 19, awards session, the team let out a whoop and went to the stage to
collect their certificates.
“After they announced it, we were really excited,” said
Youwei Zhou, a senior undergraduate student and team spokesman. “Our secret is
teamwork and each member is capable of understanding the hardware and software.
When we get stuck on a problem and cannot progress, we always figure it out
with more people working on it. We also find potential performance increases
this way.”
Youwei Zhou, a senior undergraduate student and team spokesman. “Our secret is
teamwork and each member is capable of understanding the hardware and software.
When we get stuck on a problem and cannot progress, we always figure it out
with more people working on it. We also find potential performance increases
this way.”
Zhou also said the each of this year’s winning teams from
his university consisted of different students.
his university consisted of different students.
The Student Cluster Competition, which debuted at SC07 in
Reno and has since been replicated in Europe, Asia and Africa, is a real-time,
non-stop, 48-hour challenge in which teams of six undergraduates assemble a
small cluster at SC15 and race to complete a real-world workload across a
series of scientific applications, demonstrate knowledge of system architecture
and application performance, and impress HPC industry judges.
Reno and has since been replicated in Europe, Asia and Africa, is a real-time,
non-stop, 48-hour challenge in which teams of six undergraduates assemble a
small cluster at SC15 and race to complete a real-world workload across a
series of scientific applications, demonstrate knowledge of system architecture
and application performance, and impress HPC industry judges.
The students partner with vendors to design
and build a cutting-edge cluster from commercially available components, not to
exceed a 3120-watt power limit and work with application experts to tune and
run the competition codes.
The award for Student Cluster Competition Overall Winner is
based on the combined score for correctly completed workload, benchmark
performance, demonstrated understanding of architecture and performance through
profiling and analysis, and interviews.
based on the combined score for correctly completed workload, benchmark
performance, demonstrated understanding of architecture and performance through
profiling and analysis, and interviews.
In addition to the teams from China and Germany, the SC15
Student Cluster Competition line-up included:
Student Cluster Competition line-up included:
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Team Desert Heat, Arizona Research Computing,
United States
Team Desert Heat, Arizona Research Computing,
United States
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Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
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National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
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Northeastern University, United States
Northeastern University, United States
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Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia
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Universidad EAFIT, Colombia
Universidad EAFIT, Colombia
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University of Oklahoma, United States
University of Oklahoma, United States
The Student Cluster Competition is part of the Students@SC
Program. Funding for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition was provided by
IEEE/ACM SC15 and supported by Allinea and Schlumberger.
Program. Funding for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition was provided by
IEEE/ACM SC15 and supported by Allinea and Schlumberger.
