High Performance Computing > HPC Challenge 2009 > Category A: Serial to Parallel

Category A: SERIAL to PARALLEL

General Criteria

This category is for the best application that has been parallelized to run on multi-core clusters, using techniques such as threading libraries, OpenMP and MPI.

  • - Parallelize serial code or write parallel code (Fortran or C/C++)
  • - Demonstrate parallel programming skill & parallel speedup
  • - Code is to be run on Computer Centre HPC resources

Judging Criteria

Entries in this category will be judged on the following criteria:

  • - 30% Parallelization solution and creativity
  • - 30% Speedup achieved
  • - 30% Significance and impact of research
  • - 10% Problem size and complexity

Prizes

  • - Gold    $2000
  • - Silver  $1000
  • - Merit   $500

Note: Organizers reserve the right to adjust prize awards depending on quality of submissions.

Report

Please submit a report of not more than 10 A4 size pages before the Challenge closing date. It should include the following information:

  • - Project Title
  • - Project Member Names(s) and Department
  • - Description of Project including
    •       - Significance and impact of research
    •       - Problem size and complexity
  • - Description of Parallelization solution and creativity
  • - Description of Speedup achieved

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