From May 6 to 10, the 10^th ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge finals were held at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Of more than 300 university teams worldwide who took part in the competition, only 24 have advanced to the finals, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, USTC, Sun Yat-sen University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The Supercomputing Team of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) also took part in the competition, and was comprised of five undergraduates: Han ZHU, Bingzhen WANG, Xiaofeng WU, and Canming YE from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at SUSTech, and Feiyang ZHENG from the Department of Mathematics at SUSTech.

The team was tutored by Zhuozhao LI, Assistant Professor of the Department of CSE at SUSTech, Jing FAN, Chief Engineer of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) at SUSTech, Jiahua ZHAO, former captain of the supercomputing team, and Zunyao MAO, a graduate student from SUSTech.

The Supercomputing Team won the First Prize in the final competition, making it the third consecutive year that the team has won a first prize in the finals of the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge. This is the first time that the team has won the Group Competition Award, marking another historic breakthrough.

The finals required each team to design and build a supercomputing system on site under the constraint of 3000 watts of power consumption, run and optimize high-performance benchmarks applications such as HPL & HPCG, and the application of the Yuan large language model, DeePMD, WRF-Hydro, and the ocean numerical model FVCOM.

When discussing the experience of the group competition, the students of the Supercomputing Team of SUSTech said, “Our team’s capabilities are high and stable, so we mainly take on the task of running points, and achieved a perfect score. This is the result of the joint efforts of our super team. The competition was very interesting and allowed teams to communicate with each other, and we discussed not only topics relating to this completion but also other competitions”.

As the world’s largest student supercomputer competition, ASC provides an innovative educational platform for young students’ growth, and further promotes the cultivation of talents in the field of cutting-edge interdisciplinary science and technology at SUSTech.

The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge is initiated and organized in China, and supported by the Asia Supercomputer Community from experts and institutions across Asia, Europe, and America.

The main objectives of ASC are to encourage the exchange and training of young supercomputing talent from different countries, improve supercomputing applications and R&D capacity, boost the development of supercomputing, and promote technical and industrial innovation.

This year marks the tenth occasion the competition has been held, attracting more than 10,000 undergraduates from all over the world.