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SDSU Student Cluster Competition @ Supercomputing
The Departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and the Computational Sciences Research Center (CSRC) at San Diego State University (SDSU) participated at Supercomputing (SC, http://www.supercomputing.org/) for many years through papers, posters, workshops, and a research booth. These activities are part of our EOT activities where we bring students to the meeting in order to give them in-depth experience in the field of high-performance and scientific computing, and also reach out to other programs to help recruit both undergraduate and graduate students.
The Supercomputing program has many activies including a peer reviewed technical program, associated workshops, and the exhibitor floor show. In addtion to these activities, SC supports the Student Cluster Competition (SCC). SCC was developed in 2007 to immerse undergraduate and high school students in high performance computing. Student teams design and build small clusters, with hardware and software vendor partners, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop, 48-hour challenge, at the SC conference, to complete a real-world scientific workload, while impressing conference attendees and interview judges with their HPC knowledge.
At Supercomputing '16, SDSU participated in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC16, http://www.studentclustercompetition.us/) for the first time. This activity provided faculty with the opportunity to reach out to our undergraduates and provide them with a richer undergraduate experience, to enhance our curricula by incorporating HPC concepts, and to contribute to the field of HPC. Our goal is to be able to bring a team as often as possible.