prescription, you can turn to online pharmacy, which is very online pharmacy antibiotics buyantibiotics24.net, On the day of the surgery, the patient comes in, discusses the procedure with the doctor, gets antibiotics to reduce risk of postoperative infection, receives spinal anesthesia and light sedation to reduce complications and are cleaned and prepped for surgery.

hese companies—marketing products called Advanced Skin Brightening Formula, Sunsafe Rx, Solaricare and Sunergetic—are putting people’s health at risk by giving consumers a false sense of security that a dietary supplement could prevent sunburn, reduce early skin aging caused by the sun, or protect from the risks of skin cancer,” the FDA said in a news release. “These companies were instructed to correct all violations associated with their products and were advised to review buyantibiotics24.net and product labeling to ensure that the claims they are making don’t violate federal law.

  • #4255 (no title)
  • Cal Poly Pomona
  • California State University Fullerton
  • Channel Islands Don’t Panic
  • Channel Islands Ekhos Engineers
  • Channel Islands State University
  • Channel Islands State University – HPC Dolphins
  • Channel Islands State University – Results Not Guaranteed
  • CIUK
  • Claflin University
  • Clemson University
  • Clemson University
  • Fayetteville State University
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Hunan University
  • Jackson State University
  • job-dashboard
  • Jobs & Internships
    • Candidate Dashboard
    • Submit Your Resume
    • View Resumes
  • Lanzhou University
  • Look Up an Event
  • Lookup Team
    • Adlai Stevenson High School
    • Arizona State University Profile
    • Beihang University
    • Boston University Profile
    • Chemnitz University of Technology Profile
    • Chinese University of Hong Kong Profile
    • CHPC Team Profile
    • Costa Rican Institute of Technology
    • Dalian University of Technology Profile
    • Dresden University Profile
    • EAFIT University Profile
    • Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
    • ETH Zurich Profile
    • Federal University of Parana Profile
    • Florida A & M University Profile
    • Friedrich Alexander Universitat Profile
    • Fuzhou University Profile
    • Georgia Institute of Technology Profile
    • Hong Kong Baptist University Profile
    • Hong Kong Polytechnic University Profile
    • Huazhong Agricultural University
    • Huazhong University of Science & Technology
    • Illinois Institute of Technology Profile
    • Indiana University Profile
    • Jamia Millia Islama University Profile
    • Jinan University Profile
    • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Profile
    • Kasetsart University Profile
    • King Abdulaziz University Profile
    • Laney College Profile
    • Louisiana State University
    • Maine South High School Profile
    • Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Profile
    • MIT, Boston University, Northeastern University
    • Monash University Profile
    • Nanchang University Profile
    • Nanyang Technological University Profile
    • National Cheng Kung University Profile
    • National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
    • National Tsing Hua University Profile
    • National University of Defense Technology Profile
    • National University of Singapore
    • Nizhny Novgorod National University
    • North Carolina State University Profile
    • Northeastern University
    • Northwestern Polytechnic University Profile
    • Ocean University of China
    • Otto von Guericke University
    • Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Profile
    • Peking University Profile
    • PLA Information Engineering University Profile
    • Purdue University Profile
    • Qinghai University Profile
    • Saint Petersburg State University Profile
    • San Diego State University Profile
    • Shanghai Jaio Tong University Profile
    • ShanghaiTech University Profile
    • Shanxi University Profile
    • Southeast University Profile
    • Southern University of Science & Technology Profile
    • Stony Brook University Profile
    • Sun Yat-Sen University Profile
    • Sungkyunkwan University Profile
    • SW Oklahoma State Profile
    • Taiyuan University of Technology Profile
    • Team Tennessee Profile
    • Technical University of Munich Profile
    • Telkom University Profile
    • Texas A & M University Profile
    • Texas State University Profile
    • Texas Tech University Profile
    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong Profile
    • Tsinghua University Profile
    • Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology Profile
    • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Profile
    • University of Alberta Profile
    • University of Colorado Profile
    • University of Electronic Science & Technology Profile
    • University of Hamburg Profile
    • University of Heidelberg Profile
    • University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    • University of Massachusetts Profile
    • University of Miskolc Profile
    • University of Oklahoma Profile
    • University of Sao Paulo Profile
    • University of Science & Technology of China Profile
    • University of Tartu Profile
    • University of Tennessee Profile
    • University of Texas – Austin Profile
    • University of the Pacific Profile
    • University of Utah Profile
    • University of Warsaw Profile
    • University of Washington Profile
    • Ural Federal University Profile
    • Vilnius University
    • Wake Forest University Profile
    • Weifang University Profile
    • William Henry Harrison High School Profile
    • Zhejiang University Profile
  • Morehouse College
  • Northeastern University/Auburn University
  • Northeastern University/Purdue University
  • post-a-job
  • Prairie View A&M University
  • Prairie View A&M/Channel Islands State University
  • Purdue/Indiana University
  • Qilu University of Technology
  • Shandong University
  • Shanghai University
  • Singapore Management University
  • Spelman-Morehouse
  • Tennessee State University
  • Texas Tech University Matadors
  • Texas Tech University Red Raiders
  • University of California San Diego
  • University of California San Diego
  • University of California Santa Cruz
  • University of Houston
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of Texas El Paso
  • University of Texas El Paso Team 1
  • University of the Virgin Islands
  • Vendor Honor Roll
  • Blogs
  • Follow
  • About
Student Cluster Comp.Com

Students, Supercomputing, Competition? Who doesn't love it?

Menu

  • Latest News
  • Lookup Team
  • Look Up Event
    • SC 2019 Denver
    • ASC 2020 Shenzhen
    • ASC 2020
    • ISC 2020
    • ISC 2019 Frankfurt
    • ASC 2019 Dalian
    • SC 2018 Dallas
    • ISC 2018 Frankfurt
    • ASC 2018 Nanchang
    • SC 2017 Denver
    • ISC 2017 Frankfurt
    • ASC 2017 Wuxi
    • SC 2016 Salt Lake City
    • ISC 2016 Frankfurt
    • ASC 2016 Wuhan
    • SC 2015 Austin
    • ISC 2015 Frankfurt
    • ASC 2015 Taiyuan
    • SC 2014 New Orleans
    • ISC 2014 Leipzig
    • ASC 2014 Guangzhou
    • SC 2013 Denver
    • ISC 2013 Leipzig
    • ASC 2013 Shanghai
    • SC 2012 Salt Lake City
    • ISC 2012 Hamburg
    • ASC 2012 Beijing
    • SC 2011 Seattle
    • SC 2010 New Orleans
    • SC 2009 Portland
    • SC 2008 Austin
    • SC 2007 Reno
  • Vendor Honor Roll
  • Tips, Tricks & History
  • About

ASC14: Hometown Kids Smash College LINPACK Record

June 11, 2014 · Dan Olds

“Winner, winner, chicken dinner!” is what I think the students from Guangzhou’s Sun Yat-sen University were screaming when they saw the results from the LINPACK portion of the ASC14 Student Supercomputer Challenge. (Of course, they were doing it in Chinese, so there’s a chance I could be wrong.)

ASC14 LINPACK resultsIn addition to besting their peers, Team Sun Yat-sen also set a new LINPACK cluster competition world record with their 9,272 GFLOP/s score. This not only gives the Yat-sen-ers bragging rights and a nice trophy, it also scores the team a 10,000 RMB cash award (about $1,600 USD). Not too shabby, eh?

As you can see from the chart, the biggest fight was between China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) for second place, with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University right behind.

Nanyang Tech grabbed fourth place, comfortably ahead of China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), a team known for their LINPACK prowess.

Sun Yat-sen’s score tops the previous 8,455 GFLOP/s high-water mark set by HUST at ISC’13 last summer in Leipzig, Germany.

The systems sported by the top five finishers for the LINPACK crown (there isn’t a real crown, pity) are very similar, as you can see in the table below.

ASC14 Linpack results-configs

 All of the top finishers are running eight or nine nodes, with either 216 or 192 CPU cores, and were all using like amounts of memory. They also jammed their luggage full of NVIDIA Tesla cards to slide into their Inspur-provided clusters at the Guangzhou tourney.

The top teams were flogging NVIDIA K40s, with Sun Yat-sen and HUST sporting 8 and 9 respectively. NTHU was right there hardware-wise, but lagged just a little behind second place HUST.

Nanyang pulled solid results out of their mix of actively- and passively-cooled K40s. While the K40m consume less power, they also provide slightly less performance. If Nanyang had gone with all actively-cooled GPUs, would it have given them a large enough score to land them in third place? Hard to say. The performance difference between the two parts isn’t all that much, but Nanyang needed to improve their score by only 3.51% to pass NTHU.

It looks like NUDT was simply outgunned in the fight for highest LINPACK. Like wearing brown shoes with a black tuxedo, NUDT brought K20s to a party where everyone else was wearing K40s. The K40s have more memory, more CUDA cores, and greater memory bandwidth, all of which combine to give the K40s at least a 10% performance advantage over the K20s they replace.

But there isn’t much difference at all between Sun Yat-sen and HUST. In fact, by looking at the configurations, many would conclude that HUST should win due to their one-GPU edge. So how did Sun Yat-sen pull off the victory? And how did they manage to put so much distance between themselves and second-place HUST?

My guess would be that Sun Yat-sen simply ran closer to the 3,000 watt power line than the other teams. I’m not sure what mechanism the organizers used to monitor and enforce the power cap. But it could be possible for a team to run above the power cap for very short periods of time and then drop back down before the monitoring system catches the violation. As they say in other sports, you gotta take what the defense is giving you.

Historical Context and Stuff

ASC14 Historical LINPACKOnce again, we see the top student LINPACK line taking a significant leap upward. It’s amazing to see how far the students have come since the SC08 – SC10 days, when the “big news” was that three teams finally broke through the 1 TFLOP/s barrier.

Could better power management or a slightly more optimized system give a team what they need to get to 10 TFLOP/s? It’s achingly close, with only an additional 7% performance increase over Sun Yat-sen’s current record.

We could see this record fall sooner than later. The next major student competition, the ISC Student Cluster Challenge, takes place in Leipzig, Germany, later this month. We’ll be there covering the event from cluster assembly to final teardown, as usual. First up, we’ll have interviews with the organizers and a look at the field (including a wagering pool, of course). So stay tuned…

Posted In: Latest News, ASC 2014 Guangzhou
Tagged: supercomputing, Student Cluster Competition, HPC, LINPACK, National University of Defense Technology, National Tsing Hua University, NVIDIA, Inspur, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, ASC 2014, ISC 2014, Nanyang Technological University, Results

2 Comments

  1. danolds

    June 11, 2014 at 1:26 pm · Log in to Reply

    RT @Student_C_C: What gear did top #ASC14 kids use to break #LINPACK records? http://t.co/cHz6DN4tyb #HPC http://t.co/BUgfciFsUc

  2. Student_C_C

    June 11, 2014 at 8:44 am · Log in to Reply

    What gear did top #ASC14 kids use to break #LINPACK records? http://t.co/cHz6DN4tyb #HPC http://t.co/BUgfciFsUc

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Recent Posts

  • New Cluster Competition Announced!!
  • Cluster Comp Coach Chat
  • Meet the ISC20 Cluster Teams – Then Bet on Them!
  • Countdown to the Next Cluster Competition

    weeks
    -12
    -6
    days
    0
    -5
    hours
    -2
    -1
    minutes
    -3
    -8
    seconds
    -3
    -4
  • © 2023 Gabriel Consulting Group, Inc.
  • Not an official representative of any supercomputing conference or organization. Just the cheering section.
  • Twitter

Købe Ardomon uden recept, Køb Clomid Online Købe Alenia uden recept, Køb Nexium Online Koop Ardomon zonder Recept, Kopen Clomid Online Kaufen Apcalis (Cialis) Online ohne rezept Buy Stromectol (Ivermectin) Online without Prescription - from only $2.42! Comprar Avidart sin receta, Compra Avodart en línea