Teams
The 2024 selection round brings together 10 top teams, each ready to showcase their knowledge and skill for a chance to qualify for ISC’25. This year’s national round will take place from December 4 – 7 at the Boardwalk International Convention Centre in Gqeberha, South Africa. The teams competing in this year’s national round are (in alphabetical order):
University of the Western Cape
University of South Africa
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
University of the Western Cape
University of Cape Town
Central University of Technology
Sol Plaatje University
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
Overview
The CHPC Student Cluster Challenge (SCC) brings student teams together to build and optimize high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Each team receives a budget and a curated list of components to design and assemble their unique cluster. The specified hardware is delivered to the exhibition hall they are located at.
Once assembled, teams are tasked with optimizing and running a suite of applications on their clusters to showcase their design’s performance. Judging was based on a combination of benchmark results, application performance, and overall cluster design.
This year’s applications were the following:
Benchmarks:
- HPCC
- HPCG
Applications:
- LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator)
- MILC (MIMD Lattice Computation)
- RegCM (Regional Climate Model)
- NWChem (Northwest Computational Chemistry Package)
- MathWorks (MATLAB/Simulink)
- Secret Application: More details at the competition