ASC 14 - Grand Champion - Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

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ASC14总决赛落幕 上海交通大学夺冠
2014年04月25日 21:09:40 来源：人民网

人民网广州4月25日电（杨杰利蔡珊珊）4月25日，全球规模最大的世界大学生超级计算机竞赛ASC14总决赛在广州中山大学正式落下帷幕，上海交通大学获得总决赛冠军，新加坡南洋理工大学获得亚军。中山大学获得最高计算性能奖.

首次设立的e Prize计算挑战奖由上海交通大学夺得.

上海交通大学、清华大学、太原理工大学和北京航空航天大学共同获得应用创新奖。

Reporting for People's Net in Guangzhou (Reporters:Yangjie Li and Cai Shanshan)
April 25, 2014:
The world's largest supercomputer Universiade competitions ASC14 (Asian Students Supercomputer Challenge) finals officially came to an end at Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University in Guangzhou, Shanghai Jiaotong University becombes the Final Champion, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore is the first runners-up while Zhongshen (Sun Yat-sen) University receives the highest computing performance award.

Shanghai Jiaotong University also wins the first established e-Prize awards.

Also, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University.Taiyuan University of Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and shared the Application Innovation Award.

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2 days earlier, new world records were set by Chinese students from 3 different universities

ASC14三队同破HPL计算性能世界纪录

月23日，2014年ASC世界大学生超级计算机竞赛（以下简称ASC14）首轮HPL比赛即创出惊人佳绩，中山大学、华中科技大学和台湾清华大学三支高校代表队全部打破世界纪录。其中，东道主中山大学在3000W功耗约束下实现每秒9.272万亿次浮点运算性能，提前锁定本届大赛的最高计算性能奖。

February 23, 2014 ASC World University supercomputer contest (hereinafter referred to as ASC14) first-round game that hit HPL with amazing success,

Respective Teams from Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University, Huazhong University of Science and Techology, and National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan all broke the world record. Among them, the host Zhongshan University has achieved 9.27TFlops@3Kw! - A New Linpack Record within the 3kw power budget and thus locking up the Highest Computing Performance Award.

more info here:
ASC14三队同破HPL计算性能世界纪录 - CNET科技资讯网

Awards and cash prizes will be given in the following categories:
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• Overall Gold Winner: 100,000 RMB ($16,000)
• Overall Silver Winner: 50,000 RMB ($8,000)
• Highest LINPACK: 10K RMB ($1,600 USD)
• Heterogeneous computing optimization: 10,000RMB ($1,600)
• Best applications performance: 10,000 RMB ($1,600)

 

[cirr]

We don't expect the Vietnameses to participate in this kind of competitions that require high IQ and a certain level of development in IT prowess，but no participants from our neighbouring self-claimed IT power？Yet again？

 

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April 23, 2014

9.27TFlops@3Kw! New Linpack Record set in ASC14 Student Supercomputer Challenge

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On April 23th, three ASC14 finalists: Sun Yat-sen University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Taiwan Tsinghua University rewrote the Linpack record in Student Supercomputer Challenges. Under the 3000W power budget, the ASC14 host, the Sun Yat-sen University reached 9.272 Tflops Linpack performance.

ASC14 is organized by Asia Supercomputer Community, Sun Yat-sen University and INSPUR Group. The goal of the challenge is to promote the exchanging and cultivation of those supercomputer young talents in all countries and regions, to improve supercomputer application level and R&D capacity, and to enhance the technical and industrial innovation via the technical driving force of supercomputer. Since launched in November 2013, ASC14 has 82 teams registered from five continents. Over the severe preliminary competition, 16 teams finally qualified for the final, held in Sun Yat-Sen University in April 21-25, 2014.

In the ASC14 finals, all finalists are required to adopt the INSPUR supercomputer node, high speed network, and other facilities to build a supercomputer system. The Linpack test winner, Sun Yat-sen University achieved the peak performance (9.272 Tflops) with 216 processor cores and 8 heterogeneous acceleration cards. This Linpack performance has broken the previous record 8.45Tflops, set by Huazhong University of Science and Technology in ISC13.

As for winning the award of the highest Linpack, Dr. Ye Weicai, the advisor of Sun Yat-Sen University team shared the reason why they can achieve this result. On one hand, the team has conducted a lot of deep and fine strategic optimization on Linpack testing, which better exhibits heterogeneous acceleration technology, and then greatly improves the system floating point computing capacity. On the other hand, INSPUR has provided Cluster Engine, a comprehensive software for HPC management and live monitor. Cluster Engine helps finalists to analyze and optimize operation power consumption, so the finalists can relative easily demonstrate the computing performance and effectively control the power consumption simultaneously. He believes that Linpack only represents the theoretical computing performance of system, and the following actual application optimization will be a greater challenge.

ASC14 Committee member, INSPUR HPC General Manager, Mr. Liu, Jun said that it is surprising and joyful that the three teams have broken the record, which indicates that ASC14 teams have very good understanding of the latest supercomputer technology and have innovative ideas of supercomputer structure compared to those previous teams. This also embodies the height the challenge level and demonstrates that ASC has played an important role in promoting the training of supercomputer talent. Mr. Liu Jun introduces that it is more worth expecting for the finalists to face the extreme challenge from the application on the Tianhe-2 system.

As introduced by the committee, ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge has been held for three times, from 27 participating colleges in 2012, to 43 teams in 2013, and then to 82 registered teams in 2014. The challenge has completed the “three leaps” development from China to Asian, from Asia to the world. In the last three years, the challenge has aroused broad social concerns on the application development of supercomputer, attracted more and more talents to be engaged in the supercomputer community, and produced profound influence on the development of supercomputer industry.

9.27TFlops@3Kw! New Linpack Record set in ASC14 Student Supercomputer Challenge

 

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The Champion - Shanghai Jiaotong University

Second place: Singapore Nanyang Tech U

Winner of the Linpack HPC - Zhongshan University aka Sun Yat-sen U

Winner of the e-Prize Computing Challenge - Shanghai Jiaotong U

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Final 16 teams list:

ASC Finals 16 teams come out!
Beihang University (China Mainland)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China Mainland)
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
National University of Defense Technology (China Mainland)
National Tsing Hua University (China Taiwan)
Purdue University (U.S.)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China Mainland)
Sun Yet-Sen University (China Mainland)
Taiyuan University of Technology (China Mainland)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China Hong Kong)
Tsinghua University (China Mainland)
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)
University of Miskolc (Hungary)
University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Ural Federal University (Russia)
Zhejiang University (China Mainland)

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Congratulations to the winners!
Thank you for the participating teams from China, HK and Taiwan China and from other parts of the world!
All the best at ISC 14 in Leipzig Germany in June!

 

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Congratulations.

Great job fellas.