—ASC15 teams barracks
Has been successfully held the four times, the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) lets people perceive what is supercomputer, and enjoy the magic of cutting-edge technology in various fields. In 2015, the ASC has attracted the global 152 teams from 135 colleges and universities worldwide to participating. It makes a lot of people curious about how the team’s performance? Therefore, we interviewed some ASC15 colleges and universities teams, attempts to understand those people, those things, those scenery they walked this road from the first perspective
Take the challenge as a “life event”
As the “host” of ASC15, Taiyuan University of Technology (TUT) is perhaps one of most caring the team building. In order to form a team, TUT held an inner university qualify selecting with 10 teams enrolled. The team, led by Captain Liu Xiaolong, won the selecting. Then, the Liu’s team members used the winter vacation in preparing for ASC15. This is also their ASC “tradition”. For the preparation, they every day stay together to discuss problems, and even many nights, just in order to do more tests.
Surprise! Innate love of supercomputing
The Southwest University of Science and Technology (SUST) is the team absolute “offbeat”. Its team members from 5 different majors but no one is SPECIALIZED IN COMPUTER SCIENCE. They set up only a “nonprofessional” team and named team “SUST S+”. Love is in their eyes, “we only tried to know we can or not”, although the challenge does not complete yet, but participation in the international competition will be a rare challenge to find the better self.
The Jinan University team chose a very interesting name — Four United. In the team, there is “mathematical madman” Ma Kaijie. He likes to study the mathematical theory of knowledge. One of the things he most like to do is to build a variety of number mathematical model. In his view, “your eyes will deceive you, your ears will cheat you, your experience will betray you, and your imagination will fraud you, but not in mathematics.” In addition, the team’s only a girl likes scientific research, and is committed to find a like Moore’s law of science.
World class study machine enemy less
Looks a little different, the Kasetsart University (TKU) and the Massachusetts Green Team behave normally more. TKU‘s members are from the school of computer engineering , one of Thailand’s most famous school, has won the 2008 and 2010 Microsoft Creative Cup Award, is a ” study machine team”.