March 6 — SC15 is excited to hold another nail-biting Student Cluster Competition, or SCC, now in its 9th year, as an opportunity to showcase student expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition. Held as part of SC15 Student Programs, the Student Cluster Competition is designed to introduce the next generation of students to the high-performance computing community. Over the years, the competition has drawn teams from around the United States and around the world.
In this real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge, teams of undergraduate and/or high school students assemble a small cluster on the SC15 exhibit floor and race to complete a real-world workload across a series of applications and impress HPC industry judges. In the competition, teams of six (6) students partner with vendors to design and build a cutting-edge cluster from commercially available components that does not exceed a 3120-watt power limit (26-amp at 120-volt), and work with application experts to tune and run the competition codes.
Important Dates
Team submissions to compete in the SC15 Student Cluster Competition will be accepted from February 2, 2015 – April 17, 2015.
Notifications of team acceptance into the SC15 SCC will go out the week of May 11, 2015.
Team submissions must be done at https://submissions.supercomputing.org.
NOTE: Teams that are accepted to the competition will need to submit a final architecture proposal by October 2, 2015 through the submission site.
More information about this year’s competition can be found at the links below:
- Download the Student Cluster Competition flier.
- Competition Rules & Submission Guidelines
- Competition Applications
Contact the organizing committee: [email protected]
Frequently updated information about the competition details can be found at http://www.studentclustercompetition.us.
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Source: SC15