STUDENT SUPPORT

Although the joint team of students from the University of Hamburg and Otto-Von-Guericke Magdeburg did not take the top places, the team benefited from the experience of participating in the competition and attending ISC24 more broadly.

For the third straight year, a joint team consisting of students from Hamburg and Magdeburg will compete at the 2024 ISC competition with new students on board.

The cooperative team consisting of students from Magdeburg and Hamburg faces new challenges at this year’s ISC competition.

New, hybrid format presents new challenges and opportunities as European undergraduates return to the event in-person after a two-year, virtual-only format.

GCS supports “The Heidelbears”, a team of six students representing the Heidelberg University participating in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2021 Digital. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the SCC will be held as a virtual event, running May 24-June 28, 2021. Team “The Heidelbears” is the only German participant in the group of 13 international teams that qualified for ISC 2021 Digital’s student contest. Competitors come from China, Singapore, Taiwan, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

GCS supports team deFAUlt, a team of undergraduate students representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) participating in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20). Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the SCC has been converted into a virtual event, running November 8–11, and is now called the Virtual Student Cluster Competition (VSCC). Team deFAUlt is the only German participant in the group of 19 international teams that qualified for this year’s student contest. Competitors come from China, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, and the USA.

In 2020, GCS is pleased to support three German teams of undergraduate students participating in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at the annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2020 Digital). The teams representing

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU),
University of Hamburg (UHH), and
Heidelberg University (UHD)

are among the 14 participants qualified for the contest. Other competitors come from China, Indonesia, Lithuania, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the U.K.

 

GCS sponsored a team “deFAUlt”, consisting of six undergraduate students representing the

Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg

for the Student Cluster Competition at SC19 in Denver, Colorado

GCS sponsored two team of undergraduate students representing

University of Hamburg
and
Heidelberg University

for the Student Cluster Competition at ISC18 in Frankfurt/Germany

GCS sponsored a team of six undergraduate students representing

Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg

for the Student Cluster Competition at SC18 in Dallas, Texas

GCS has sponsored SCC teams for four consecutive years in order to encourage students to take a deeper interest in HPC and develop more HPC skills in Germany. This is the first time GCS has helped three German teams participate in the student competition being held in line with the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt/Main, Germany:

Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hamburg University
Heidelberg University

In 2017, GCS supported a multi institution Bavarian student team, representing

Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
and
Technical University Munich

which qualified to participate in the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) at SC18 in Denver, Colorado.

Team “FAUboyzz” represented the Friedrich-Alexander Universät Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU) at ISC17. The multi-disciplinary team consisted of six students studying computational engineering, computer science and medical engineering at FAU.

In 2016, GCS supported two German undergraduate teams who were accepted for the 2016 Student Cluster Competition, a 48-hour challenge held on the SC16 showground in Salt Lake City, Utah:

Team deFAUlt of Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg
and
Team PhiClub of Technical University Munich

In 2015, GCS acted as sponsor for a team of undergraduate students of Technische Universität Munich participating in the  2015 Student Cluster Competition (SCC) held on the SC15 showground in Austin, TX. Team TUMuch Phun (pronounced: too much fun) was the only European representative among the nine teams qualifying for the annually recurring competition at SC