National Tsinghua University Wins Supercomputing Conference SCC Competitions with Acer Servers



National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan, using computing devices sponsored by the Acer Server team, was named Overall Winner of the 2011 Student Cluster Competition at the SC11 Supercomputing Conference in Seattle, Washington. In the SCC competition, teams of undergraduates compete to build a small computing cluster and then race to produce the greatest sustained performance across a series of applications. The competition is designed to introduce the current generation of students to the high performance computing community. In 2014, NTHU students again won at the SCC competition, winning the highest LINPACK award using devices provided by the Acer Server team.

During several months of preparation for the competition, the team, coached by NTHU Professors Ye-qing Zhong and Zhe-rong Li, cooperated closely with Taiwan¡¦s National Center for High-Performance Computing, Acer, and NVIDIA Corporation during the pre-testing process to enhance and optimize the software and server hardware.