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Team Phoenix-Cluster Competition Team (HPC)

Goals

The Student Cluster Competition team will focus on putting together a proposal each Spring to compete in Supercomputing’s “Student Cluster Competition”. This competition brings togethers teams from around the world to complete a series of challenges related to high-performance computing within a set time limit and power budget. Students are expected to develop a coherent proposal and then work with team mentors and vendors to understand and deploy a working high-performance cluster. Additional goals will include installing, running, and optimizing traditional high-performance applications and benchmarks. The team will attend Supercomputing each fall to compete against other teams based on the preparation undertaken in earlier semesters in this VIP class.

Issues Involved or Addressed

All aspects of creating and using a high performance cluster computer system from designing it, deploying it, configuration, optimization, and demonstrating its use.

Methods and Technologies

  • Software development/tuning
  • Networking (Ethernet/Infiniband)
  • Operating System optimization
  • Computer power tuning
  • Scalable system management
  • Hardware architecture
  • Accelerator technology (GPUs)
  • Parallel processing optimization
  • Cloud Computing
  • Benchmarking and monitoring

Majors Sought

Business: General Management

Computing: Computer Science

Engineering: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Sciences: Applied Physics, Mathematics

Preferred Interests and Preparation

Required skills include: Interest in and willingness to learn basic Linux commands, experience with Makefiles, and Linux software. Experience with either Python or C programming.
Suggested skills include: Experience with basic parallel programming, Linux system maintenance, hardware and/or application profiling using gprof, nvprof, or other tools. Project Management skills are useful for team coordination and organization.
 
 

Advisors

Rich Vuduc
Rich Vuduc
richie@cc.gatech.edu

Jeffrey Valdez
Jeffrey Valdez
valdez@gatech.edu

Spencer Bryngelson
Computational Science and Engineering
shb@gatech.edu

Will Powell
Computational Science and Engineering
will.powell@cc.gatech.edu

Day, Time & Location

Full Team Meeting:
3:30-4:20 Wednesday
Van Leer 465

Subteam meetings scheduled after classes begin.

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