​We are excited to introduce the CIUK Student Cluster Challenge that will make its debut at CIUK 2020

• In 2020, CIUK will feature the inaugural CIUK Student Cluster Challenge
• Teams of six students will complete a number of mini challenges over the weeks leading up to the conference, culminating in one final challenge during the event on 3 December.
  
• Based on the CIUK competition, a CIUK team will be identified to compete in the International Supercomputing Student Cluster Challenge in Frankfurt in June 2021.
• Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate.

Congratulations Durham University!!!
CIUK 2020 Cluster Challenge Champions

 

Cluster Challenge Leader Board

Last updated: 9 December 09:00

​Position	Team​		Individual Challenges	​Points​	​Total Points
1	TEAM DURHAM	​	Challenge 1: STREAM - 1st Place Challenge 2: Linpack - 3rd Place Challenge 3: HPCC - 1st Place Challenge 4: HPCG - 2nd Place Challenge 5: OpenACC - 1st Place Challenge 6: GPUs - 1st Place Challenge 7: ​Parallelism - 2nd Place Challenge 8: Filesystem - 3rd Place Challenge 9: Quantum - 1st Place Challenge 10: Cloud - 2nd Place	10 3 10 9 10 9 9 0 10 2.3	72.3
2	UoL HPC	​	Challenge 1: STREAM - 2nd Place Challenge 2: Linpack - 1st Place Challenge 3: HPCC - 3rd Place Challenge 4: HPCG - 1st Place Challenge 5: OpenACC - 2nd Place Challenge 6: GPUs - 3rd Place Challenge 7: ​Parallelism - 1st Place Challenge 8: Filesystem - 1st Place Challenge 9: Quantum - 2nd Place Challenge 10: Cloud - 3rd Place	8.3 10 5 10 5 7 10 10 4 0	69.3
3	TEAM BRISTOL	​	Challenge 1: STREAM - 4th Place​ Challenge 2: Linpack - 2nd Place Challenge 3: HPCC - 2nd Place Challenge 4: HPCG - 3rd Place Challenge 5: OpenACC - 3rd Place Challenge 6: GPUs - 2nd Place Challenge 7: ​Parallelism - 3rd Place Challenge 8: Filesystem - 2nd Place Challenge 9: Quantum - 3rd Place Challenge 10: Cloud - 1st Place	​0.5 9 9 8 2.5 8 7 5 3 4	56
4	​ CHICKPEA BEANS	​	Challenge 1: STREAM - 3rd Place Challenge 2: Linpack - 4th Place Challenge 3: HPCC - 4th Place Challenge 4: HPCG - 4th Place Challenge 5: Open ACC - 4th Place WITHDRAWN	​5 0 0 0 0	5

 

Cluster Challenge Schedule

​Week 1	​Wednesday 14 October	​Alces Flight	​STREAM benchmark challenge Read more about the system Alces Flight built. Read the CIUK results announcement.
​Week 2 ​	​Tuesday 20 October	​Intel	​HPL Linpack benchmark challenge Read the CIUK results announcement.
	​Thursday 22 October	​Dell	​HPCC benchmark challenge Read the CIUK results announcement.
​Week 3	​Wednesday 27 October	​Lenovo	​HPCG benchmark challenge Read the CIUK results announcement.
​Week 4	​Wednesday 4 November	​Boston / NVIDIA	​Parallelising a code using OpenACC Read the CIUK results announcement.
​Week 5	​Wednesday 11 November	​Scan / NVIDIA	​Training a Neural Network on multiple GPUs Read the CIUK results announcement.
​Week 6	​Wednesday 18 November	​IBM (Power)	Accelerating machine learning algorithms by implementing parallelism Read the CIUK results announcement​
​Week 7	​Wednesday 25 November	​OCF / ThinkParQ	​Optimising and benchmarking a BeeGFS filesystem Read the CIUK results announcement
​Week 8	​Wednesday 2 December	​IBM (Quantum)	​Quantum computing challenge Read the CIUK results announcement
	​Thursday 3 December	​STFC Cloud	​SWIFT code challenge Read the CIUK results announcement

​"Team Bristol"

"Team Durham"

"UoL HPC"

"Chickpea Beans"

Meet the Cluster Challenge Companies

The following companies will be providing remote access to their systems as part of the Cluster Challenge. We are extremely grateful to them for their help and participation. Details of the systems that will be used will be added soon.

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For Students:
Each student team will comprise six students with up to two advisors. The competition is focussed on hardware and software optimisation on selected key applications.The CIUK 2020 competition will take place over a number of weeks leading up to a final online challenge during CIUK 2020 on 3 December. Teams will be given access to remote systems from participating companies and asked to complete a challenge within a two hour time limit. A Cluster Challenge league table will be updated after each challenge. The programme of challenges will be issued in early October. The Cluster Challenge provides a platform for you to showcase your skills to the UK and International HPC and AI communities.

For Heads of Departments; Advanced Research Computing Divisions, Outreach Officers:
The Cluster Challenge will provide students with a project that supports their learning whilst bringing an element of teamwork, honing communication and attracting positive attention to all parties involved. There will be a framework of cluster challenges provided to ensure limited resources other than team building and mentoring would be required from you.

For Vendors:
This is a Corporate and Social Responsibility opportunity to be associated with a UK cluster Challenge national league and sponsor the talent of tomorrow. There are so many opportunities and positive outcomes based on test and development, recruitment, collaboration plus national and international coverage in this market that the challenge might be – why not get involved?

For more information on the ISC Challenge please see: http://hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2019/isc19-student-cluster-competition/

If there are any questions, or you require further information, please contact us.