ISC 2020’s Student Cluster Competition Winners Announced

Normally, the Student Cluster Competition involves teams of students building real computing clusters on the show floors of major supercomputer conferences and racing to complete a series of tasks and workloads across a variety of applications. ISC 2020 was a little bit different, of course, in that there was no exhibit floor on which to build clusters — in fact, there was no physical conference at all. With ISC 2020 fully virtual, the teams instead competed to run workloads on the same cluster — a system supplied by the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Singapore — over the course of June 1st to 24th. Now, after more than three weeks of heated (and social-distanced) competition, the winners of the ISC 2020 Student Cluster Competition have been announced.