Goals
The Student Cluster Competition team will focus on putting together a proposal each Spring to compete in Supercomputing’s “Student Cluster Competition”. This competition brings togethers teams from around the world to complete a series of challenges related to high-performance computing within a set time limit and power budget. Students are expected to develop a coherent proposal and then work with team mentors and vendors to understand and deploy a working high-performance cluster. Additional goals will include installing, running, and optimizing traditional high-performance applications and benchmarks. The team will attend Supercomputing each fall to compete against other teams based on the preparation undertaken in earlier semesters in this VIP class.
Issues Involved or Addressed
All aspects of creating and using a high performance cluster computer system from designing it, deploying it, configuration, optimization, and demonstrating its use.
Methods and Technologies
Academic Majors of Interest
- Business›General Management
- Computing›Computational Science and Engineering
- Computing›Computer Science
- Engineering›Computer Engineering
- Engineering›Electrical Engineering
- Engineering›Industrial Engineering
- Other
- Sciences›Applied Physics
- Sciences›Mathematics
Preferred Interests and Preparation
Required skills include: Interest in and willingness to learn basic Linux commands, experience with Makefiles, and Linux software. Experience with either Python or C programming.
Suggested skills include: Experience with basic parallel programming, Linux system maintenance, hardware and/or application profiling using gprof, nvprof, or other tools. Project Management skills are useful for team coordination and organization.
Meeting Schedule & Location
Team Advisors
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Computational Science and Engineering