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.
In 2018, a team undergraduate students representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg qualified to participate in the Student Cluster Competition at SC18 in Dallas, Texas. Team deFAUlt was sponsered by GCS.
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Team deFAUlt on site at SC18 in Dallas, TX, representing the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Back, left to right: Oleksandr Bannov, David Sauerwein, Benedikt Oehlrich (standing in for Marcel Pabst) and scientific advisor Johannes Hofmann. Front, left to right: Manuel Peschel, Eva Dengler and Meike Blöcher. © Jo Julia Photography for SC18
More information on team deFAUlt, participating in the Student Cluster Competition at SC18 in Dallas, TX, can be found here.