Finally! It’s time to reveal the winners, placers, and showers in the SC’18 Student Cluster Competition. It was a hard-fought competition, as usual. An exhausting 48 hour marathon of hardware, code, triumph, tragedy – the highest highs and some not-too-low lows. In other words, business as usual at a cluster competition.
As you can see in the table, Tsinghua rolled to a comfortable victory over the rest of the field and takes home yet another Gold Medal (in the form of a certificate). This is the second time Tsinghua has completed a perfect season by winning all three major international competitions: the Asian ASC
, European ISC, and now US-based SC. That’s a stunning accomplishment and marks this team as one that will go down into the annals of cluster competition lore.
Another elite team, Nanyang Technological University, goes home with the Silver Medal (again, a certificate) and second place. Nanyang also took home the Highest LINPACK award, setting a new world record in the process.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has shown steady improvement over the years and is now poised to join the upper echelon teams with their third-place finish, edging out certified-elite NTHU, great job UIUC. The stolid German team, FAU, nearly made the top four, but definitely made an impact on the competition.
Thus ends another SC18 Student Cluster Competition. We’ll be back next year with coverage of all the major competitions, plus bonus coverage of the CHPC South African inter-country play-off competition this December. If you’re not following these competitions like a mad dog, you have to ask yourself “why not?” If you are, then stay tuned to this channel for all the action.
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