STUDENT SUPPORT
As Germany's national supercomputing institution, GCS is committed to encourage a wide variety of activities that help promote up and coming experts in the field of high-performance computing (HPC). One of these activities are the Student Cluster Competition (SCC) events which have regularly been scheduled as multiple-day live events during the world’s largest gatherings of the HPC community: (1) the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis “Supercomputing Conference” (SC), held annually in the United States, and (2) the European counterpart of this event, the “International Supercomputing Conference“ (ISC), which is held earlier each year, in late spring, in Germany,
The Student Cluster Competition encourages international teams of university students to showcase their expertise in a friendly yet spirited competition that fosters critical skills, professional relationships, competitive spirit and lifelong comraderies.
Student Cluster Competition at ISC18
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. In 2018, it 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
Team “Danger High FAUltage” from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) comprises students from the different fields of computational engineering, computer science, and chemistry. From left: Alexander Lieret, Alina Öz, Raphael Mayr, Christian Vögl, Christian Zöllner, Tobias Müller. © FAU
Hamburg University
The team from Universität Hamburg features students with a background in informatics, software systems development, computing in science, and information systems. Left to right: Julius Plehn, Daniel Bremer, Johannes Coym, Michael Blesel, Jannek Squar, Leonhard Reichenbach, Michael Kuhn, Niklas Wittmer, Oliver Pola. © Hamburg University
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University is a newcomer to the SCC at ISC. The team members study physics, mathematics, scientific computing, and applied computer science. From left to right: Zihan Liu, Yajie Liang, Erik Schnetter, Bálint Soproni, Susanne de Vasconcelos Barros Malheiros, Aksel Alpay. © Heidelberg University