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The Student Cluster Competition (SCC) was developed in 2007 to immerse undergraduate and high school students in high performance computing (HPC). Student teams design and build clusters with hardware and software industry partners, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop 48-hour challenge to complete a real-world scientific workload, while impressing conference attendees and interview judges with their HPC knowledge.
The United States-based Supercomputing Conference (SC) held the first Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in November 2007. The contest has been included at every subsequent SC conference, usually featuring eight university teams from the US, Europe, and Asia. As the first organization to hold a cluster competition, SC pretty much established the template on which the other competitions are based.
The other large HPC conference, the imaginatively named ISC (International Supercomputing Conference), held its first SCC at the June 2012 event in Hamburg. This contest, jointly sponsored by the HPC Advisory Council, attracted teams from the US, home country Germany, and China. It was a big hit with conference organizers and attendees.
The third entry is Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) attracting more than 150 applications. Teams from China, India, South Korea, Russia, and other countries submit applications seeking to compete.
India brings up the fourth entry, the Indian Student Supercomputing Challenge (ISSC) will host 8 teams in the final this December at Techfest IIT Bombay. ISSC’16 is an inaugural year, not only many country participated but also industry partners extended their support.
We are a group of High Performance Computing enthusiasts from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. We are representing IIT Bombay in Student Supercomputing Competitions including ISSC, ASC, SC and ISC.
HPC wave is happening at full scale from the technology standpoint but the manpower experienced in it isn’t increasing as fast. These competitions are a platform to promote HPC education and improve students’ ability to tackle actual problems and we are glad to be part of this. We believe that our participation would kick-start the wave of HPC among the academic community of India.
Our team holds expertise in computer science, electronics, system administration and computational science, over our core subject of aerospace engineering and HPC. This unique combination enables us to not just parallelize the application, but also to understand the higher level science involved, thereby parallelizing intelligently. We boast of a team whose skill set spans across all domains of computer simulation.
Our team is complimented and guided by mentors and team advisor having experience in the field of HPC and engineering.
A High Performance Computing enthusiast having experience in computational inexpensive techniques around its wide area of applications. He holds various responsibilities like organizing Co-Chair of Indian Student Supercomputing Challenge (ISSC) at Techfest IIT Bombay, Technical Co-Chair of the de-HPC Symposium at IIT Bombay, Core Member of India’s first GPU Center of Excellence, Member of Asian Supercomputing Community and other HPC communities.
An admirer of space and astronauts, he is interested in leveraging the advancements in engineering, mathematics and computer science to contribute towards human space exploration and to bring The New Space Age closer.
A die-hard SpaceX fan, he believes that space, energy and AI will be the biggest game changers of the future. His interests lie in Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics-based simulations and Big Data.
A hardcore tech fanatic, he is interested in developing android apps, in the computational aspects of finance and exploring different technologies and applications.
An advocate of FOSS and scientific computing enthusiast, he is interested in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics. He is the lead developer of PySpace and an active contributor to PySPH.
Mathematician at heart, he is fascinated by algorithms and fluid mechanics. He is currently working on developing algorithms to deal with dependencies during auto parallelization.
FOSS afficiando, he is a contributor in the domain of QR code detection. He is also interested in competitive programming and working with data structures and algorithms.
A quintessential geek who likes to mess with big computers. A specialist in Operating Systems and Linux Administration. A huge admirer of humans in space. His interests are High Performance Computing, Theoretical Physics and Astrophotography.
Loves to understand the workings of the world around and believes computers are an essential tool to achieve this goal. An autodidact in the fields of scientific computing and physics. Keen on applying his knowledge of engineering and natural sciences to make manned interplanetary flight possible..
