- Teams of up to six students will complete a number of online challenges over the weeks leading up to the conference, followed by a series of challenges during the event itself on 5-6 December.
- Based on the CIUK competition, a CIUK team will be identified to compete in the International Supercomputing (ISC 2025) Student Cluster Challenge in June 2025.
- Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate.
- Travel and accommodation is provided for teams during the conference in Manchester in December.
Following the success of our previous Student Cluster Challenges the competition will return in 2024 for it's fifth edition. As in 2023 this years' Student Cluster Competition will be a hybrid competition with a series of online challenges leading up to the conference followed by some in-person challenges during the conference itself.
The agenda for the competition will be released soon but we will aim to start the online challenges in early October with a schedule along these lines...
Monday 14 October – Challenge 1 Presentation
Tuesday 15 to Thursday 17 October – Challenge 1 (ONLINE CHALLENGE - 3 hour slot)
Monday 28 October – Challenge 2 Presentation
Tuesday 29 to Thursday 31 October – Challenge 2 (ONLINE CHALLENGE - 3 hour slot)
Monday 11 November – Challenge 3 Presentation
Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 November – Challenge 3 (ONLINE CHALLENGE - 3 hour slot)
Monday 25 November – Challenge 4 Presentation
Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 November – Challenge 4 (ONLINE CHALLENGE - 3 hour slot)
Wednesday 4 December – Challenge 5 (2pm)
Thursday 5 December – Challenge 6 (10am)
Thursday 5 December - Challenge 7 (2pm)
Friday 6 December – Challenge 8 (10am)
Friday 6 December - Results announced (pm)
The points scoring for the competition is the same for every round. The team that wins the challenge will be awarded 30pts. All other teams will then be awarded points based on the performance against the winning teams score. For example: if the first challenge has a maximum of 100pts available and the winning team scores 90 out of 100 that team will receive the maximum 30 competition points. If the team in second place scores 80 out of 100 they will receive 27pts because their score is 89% of the winning score (90pts) so they get 89% of the maximum 30pts available to the winning team. If the team in 3rd place scores 70 out of 100 they will receive 23pts because their score is 78% of the winning score (90pts) so they receive 78% of the maximum 30pts available to the winning team. All points are rounded up or down to the nearest full number. We do not score half points.
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