The ASC21 Student Cluster Competition is huge this year. Fully twenty one teams are participating on-premises at a big stadium at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in lovely Shenzhen, China. Another seven teams are competing virtually, courtesy of AWS. Both sets of teams are running the same applications but are separated into different divisions to keep things fair.
The on-premise teams were allowed to build their cluster out of Inspur server building blocks plus whatever accelerators they brought with them. The AWS teams each have a set configuration.
With 28 teams in the competition, we had our work cut out for us to interview as many as we could, process the videos, and then get them posted and write up the blog. (Personal note: Adobe? Fix your Premiere Pro and Audition dynamic linking, it’s not working anymore, your help desk is mystified about the problem, and it took me a lot more processing time to get these videos done.)
Ok, personal problems aside, we are (finally!) able to let you meet the ASC21 teams up close and personal. Next to each team video, we also include data on how many times they’ve participated in a major competition and the awards they’ve won. Here we go…
Beihang University, six previous competitions, Silver Medal, Bronze Medal, LINPACK Award
Chinese University of Hong Kong, one previous appearance
Fuzhou University: Third competition
Huazhong University of Science & Technology, tenth competition, Gold, Silver Medals, plus LINPACK Award
Hunan University, one appearance
Jinan University, second appearance
Lanzhou University, first appearance
Monash University, second competition
National Tsinghua University, 18th competition, three Gold, two Silver, two Bronze, four LINPACK Awards
Northwestern Polytechnical University, third appearance
Peking University, sixth competition
Qinghai University, second competition
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 11th competition, two Silver, one Bronze Medal
Southeast University, third competition
Southern University of Science & Technology, third competition
Sun Yat-Sen University, eighth competition, Gold Medal, LINPACK Award
Tsinghua University, 22nd competition, ten Gold, four Silver, two Bronze Medals
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, second appearance
University of Science and Technology of China, ninth competition, one Gold, two Silver, two Bronze Medals, one LINPACK Award
Ural Federal University, fifth competition
Zhejiang University, fourth appearance, LINPACK Award
There were other competitors in ASC21 that were either too busy for an interview or we couldn’t make our schedules line up, here they are:
- Taiyuan University of Technology, sixth appearance
- Shanxi University, second competition
- Shandong University, first competition
- Kasetsart University, fourth competition
- University of Warsaw, tenth competition
- EAFIT University, seventh competition
Enjoy the video profiles and stay tuned for more ASC21 action. Next up, we’re going to talk to the major application experts along with HPC dignitaries.