Last week, the finals of the the ASC19 Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC19)  were held at Dalian University of Technology. After five days of competition, the team from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) won the first prize, along with the prizes for Application Innovation and Most Popular Team.

Undergraduate students Zhao Jiahua, Zheng Shuxin, Wang Ziqin, Lv Junyan, and Cheng Pujin made up the SUSTech team. The team instructor was the head of the Science and Engineering Computing Center, Fan Jing.

In the finals, the teams were asked to design their own supercomputer system within 3000W power consumption and run cutting-edge science and engineering applications such as HPL&HPCG benchmarks, Face Super Resolution, Community Earth System Model (CESM), wtdbg, a gene sequencing assembly software, and ShengBTE, a phonon calculation software.

 The SUSTech team completed all the questions and won the Application Innovation Award for their outstanding performance on the ShengBTE round.

ASC19 was jointly organized by Asia Supercomputer Community, Inspur Group and Dalian University of Technology. More than 300 teams from colleges all over the world signed up, and 20 of them entered the finals. ASC is one of the world’s three major supercomputer competitions and has been held eight times so far.

Wang Lianping, head of Computational Science and Engineering Center was invited to give a report entitled “SUSTech’s Hyper-development and outlook” at the final ASC19 Development Committee meeting.

There were many teams from Chinese universities competing in the finals, along with teams from University of Warsaw / Warsaw University of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, University of Tartu, Universidad EAFIT and Sungkyunkwan University.

The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge is the world’s largest student supercomputer competition, sponsored and organized by China and supported by Asian, European, and American experts and institutions.

The main objectives of ASC are to encourage 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. The annual ASC Supercomputer Challenge was first held in 2012 and has since attracted over 7,000 undergraduates from all over the world.