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HPC Challenge 2009
Information Dates
Briefing Registration
Challenge Registration
NUS Computer Centre is pleased to announce HPC Challenge 2009 - a competition aimed at promoting awareness and use of parallel computing techniques for research. Participants are invited to demonstrate their parallel computing skills and effective use of parallel computing resources such as multi-core processor clusters and the grid environment at NUS.
If you are already using or plan to develop a parallel application, why not participate in this Challenge to win a cash prize and maybe even the top prize of $2000! You will have 4 months to complete your challenge proposal and submit a report. HPC Challenge award winners will be announced in October 2009 and be invited to present their project in a special award event in November 2009. As a winner, you would have the honor of using this award as a useful future reference.
Information/Rules
1. This competition is open to all NUS staff and students. The proposed work is to be completed on NUS Computer Centre HPC resources. Please apply for an account to use these resources if you do not have one.
2. Entries are admitted on individual or group basis. For group projects, please nominate a representative to register/submit one entry for the project. Joint collaborative projects with external organizations are also welcome.
3. The competition is divided into three categories. In their registration, participants are to select a category that best fits their proposed work.
Category A Serial to Parallel for the best code that has been parallelized to run on multi-core clusters available at NUS Computer Centre, using techniques such as threading libraries, OpenMP and MPI.
Category B Grid for the best program that has been enabled to run on NUS Grid TCG@NUS.
Category C Parallel Speedup for the best speedup of an existing parallel program on multi-core clusters available at NUS Computer Centre.
4. Participants are encouraged to register for the Challenge as early as possible. Registration information includes name, department, project name and category of the proposed computation work. On successful registration, participants will be assigned special run privilege or account to complete their proposed work. There will be briefing and instruction sessions for interested / participants in the coming weeks on parallel computing and grid enabling. Please indicate your interest for these in the registration link below.
5. Registered participants are to complete their proposed work and submit a report (not more than 10 pages) by the competition closing date. Details of the report requirements will be available at a later date.
6. The prizes will be presented at a special seminar during which winners will be invited to give a short presentation of their project.
Important Dates
| Register project by | 31 July 2009 |
| Submit project by | 30 September 2009 |
| Prize awards | November 2009 |
Registration Links
- For feedback and enquiries on HPC Challenge 2009, please contact us at .
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