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.
GCS proudly sponsered two teams of undergraduate students representing the Hamburg University and Heidelberg University, which qualified for the Student Cluster Competition at the International Supercomputing Conference 2019 in Frankfurt/Germany.
The SCC team representing the University of Hamburg features computer science and software system development students. From left to right: Maximilian Wendt, Michael Kuhn (Coach), Maximilian Bauregger, Hauke Sommerfeld, Fabian Meier, Benedikt Ostendorf, Jannek Squar (CoCoach), Hussam Almotlak, and Matz Radloff. © Hamburg University
The SCC team of Heidelberg University at ISC19 comprises of students from the fields of Appplied Computer Science, Physics, Geoscience and mathematics. From left to right: Hernan Campos, Bálint Soproni, Susanne de Vasconcelos Barros Malheiros, Fabian Jäger, Till Bungert, and Falk Löwner. © Heidelberg University