Student Cluster Competition
The Student Cluster Competition (SCC) showcases the computational impact of clusters and open source software in the hands of motivated and sleep-deprived students under both a time and power constraint. Uh, no pressure…
During SC10, teams consisting of six students, undergraduate and/or high school, will showcase the amazing power of clusters and the ability to utilize open source software to solve interesting and important problems. They will compete in real-time on the exhibit floor to run a workload of real-world applications on clusters of their own design while never exceeding the dictated power limit.
Prior to the competition, teams work with their advisor and vendor partners to design and build a cutting-edge commercially available small cluster constrained by the 26 amps available during the conference. Teams must also learn the four open source competition applications and are encouraged to enlist the help of domain specialists.
During SC10 in New Orleans, teams will assemble, test and tune their machines and run the HPCC benchmarks until the starting bell rings on Monday night at the Exhibit Opening Gala where they will be given the competition data sets. In full view of conference attendees, teams will execute the prescribed workload while showing progress and science visualization output on large high-resolution displays in their areas. Teams race to correctly complete the greatest number of application runs during the competition period until the close of the exhibit floor on Wednesday evening.
The showcase portion of the competition, allows teams to spin their wheels and show off what they’ve learned and what they can do with the equipment. Veteran HPC experts will be present to judge the visualizations and to interview each team on their cluster and application knowledge.
The winning team will be awarded based on a combined score for workload completed, benchmark performance, and interviews & outreach. Recognition will be given for the highest LINPACK and SC Fan Favorite. The winning team will be recognized at the SC10 Awards Ceremony luncheon on Thursday.
SCC Application Opens: February 1, 2010
Apply at: http://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Application Deadline: April 16, 2010(Notification will be sent out the week of May 3, 2010)
Final Architecture Proposals: September 16, 2010
Questions: student-cluster-competition@info.supercomputing.org
Interview podcast concerning S10 Student Cluster Challenge and how to get involved
Submission guidelines and rules
Competition judging and awards
Applications
SCC Flyer
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