2020-2021 ASC Student Supercomputer
Challenge (ASC20-21)
Call for Participation!
Dear old and new friends of ASC:
As you may know, the 2020 and 2021 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge are merged into one competition. The ASC Committee is now excited to announce the official launch of this new season of ASC20-21. Worldwide college students and teachers are invited to join us in this world’s largest and most fierce supercomputing hackathon. Please register HERE: http://www.asc-events.org/ASC20-21/Register.php
Initiated in Asia, ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC) is now the world's largest supercomputing hackathon. The ASC Challenge aims to promote international exchanges and training of supercomputing talents from all over the world, inspire new developments in supercomputing application research, boost the technological driving force of supercomputing and promote industrial innovation.
Since inception in 2012, in 8 years of superb growth ASC Challenge has increased steadily its influence across the globe. Today, it sets a new attendance record with 8,500+ student challengers from 1700+ power teams, vying for top prizes on ASC arena.
ASC20-21 will be co-hosted by Asia Supercomputer Community, Inspur Group and SUSTech. Please find below the detailed timeline of ASC20-21, and often visit the ASC website for frequent updates.
ASC20-21 Important Dates and Details
Basic Rules All universities are invited to join in ASC20-21 with several teams A team has 5 undergrads and 1 instructor; Original ASC20 teams can readjust team members according to the actual situation and need to renew the registration | ||
Online Registration | Sep 8, 2020 - Nov 15, 2020 | Register at: http://www.asc-events.org/ASC20-21/Register.php A confirmation letter will be sent to ASC team within 3 days after registration. |
Preliminary Competition | Nov 16, 2020 – Jan 8, 2021 | Each team should submit a proposal, which includes the results and application code optimization. The ASC Evaluation Committee will review the preliminary proposals and determine the top 20 finalists |
Final Competition | May 8-12, 2021 Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China | The 20 finalists will design and build their clusters on site, run HPC benchmarks, optimize applications and present their results to ASC Evaluation Committee
1. Benchmark test 2. Application tasks: tweak and tune several defined applications. The experts from ASC Evaluation Committee will provide instance on site 3. e Prize task: tweak and tune a selected application 4. Presentation |
Note: All due dates refer to 24:00PM (UTC+8). Inspur group will be the vendor sponsor and provide computing platforms for on-site finalists to build their clusters, but all the teams are permitted to bring extra acceleration cards and network switches at their own risks.
ASC Award Overview
Group Awards
Champion
Silver Winner
First Prize
Winning Prize
Special Awards
e Prize Award
Highest LINPACK Award
Application Innovation Awards
Group Competition Award
Fan Favorite Award
For more information, please contact ASC Committee via:
Email: info@asc-events.org
Website: www.asc-events.org
Twitter: @ASCHPC
WeChat: @ASCHPC
Sincerely,
ASC20-21 Committee
| Technical Support | Yu Liu techsupport@asc-events.org |
| Media | Jie He media@asc-events.org |
| Collaboration | Vangel Bojaxhi executive.director@asc-events.org |
| General Information | info@asc-events.org |
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