ISC 2024 Student Cluster Competition

Overview

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The ISC Student Cluster Competition 2024 encourages international teams of university students to showcase their expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition that fosters critical skills, professional relationships, competitive spirit and lifelong comraderies.

The Competition is an integral part of the ISC event and ongoing success and growing recognition as a world championship competition are a result of the collaborative partnership between ISC and the HPC-AI Advisory Council.

The competition, co-organized by the HPC-AI Advisory Council and ISC Group, will take place during the ISC High Performance Conference. This year we plan to have both virtual along with in-person competitions. Each team can apply for virtual, in-person or both parts.

The virtual part will be open for all teams, the teams will be connecting to remote clusters and run HPC applications, performing benchmarks and participate in the given challenges.

The in-person part will be open for up to eight teams. The onsite teams will bring and assemble their own cluster, and run the micro-benchmarks and HPC applications, within three days of the ISC High Performance Conference.

For the virtual part, the teams will be competing over:


- DKRZ supercomputers: The German Climate Computing Center (Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, DKRZ) is a central service center for German climate and earth system research. Its high-performance computers, data storage and services form the central research infrastructure for simulation-based climate science in Germany. The online teams this year will have a coding challenge for ICON application on these clusters.

- Bridges-2 supercomputers: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint computational research center with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Bridges-2 is the newest PSC supercomputer (in production as of March 2021). The participation teams will be experimenting with both CPU and GPU clusters. The CPU supercomputing cluster includes 488 nodes of dual AMD Rome 7742 CPUs, 256GB of memory and HDR InfiniBand 200Gb/s network. The GPU cluster is a 24 node cluster, equipped with 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 and Intel Cascade Lake Xeon Gold 6248 CPUs, 512GB of RAM and Two HDR InfiniBand 200Gb/s network adapters.

The competition will include applications that address education and applied learning towards accelerating bioscience research and discovery. The student teams will be tasked to test several applications that are being used by scientists and researchers.

Over these intense competition days, the teams demonstrate incredible capabilities to obtaining the greatest performance across a series of benchmarks and applications. In parallel to their day-to-day learnings, the students’ novel approaches and unique perspectives gained during the competition are integral to our own education – teaching us how HPC influences our world.

Here is the recording of the ISC24 SCC Team Announcement:

Here is the recording of the ISC24 SCC Virtual Opening Ceremony:

– For ISC23 Student Cluster Competition see here.

– If you have further questions please contact us.

– Check out the leadership list and results of all competitions.