Student Cluster Competition        

• Friday
  • International teams arrive
• Saturday
  • Domestic teams arrive in the morning
  • 1:00pm - Safety briefing - MANDATORY
    • Bring posters to this meeting
    • Teams can start to set up their hardware after the safety briefing, but not before
  • Conference Engagement Option: 3:10pm - 4:00pm (Intel Session (requires registration)) Using Roofline Analysis
  • Conference Engagement Option: 4:15pm - 5:05pm (Intel Session(requires registration)) Scaling Deep Learning (Allinea)
    • Be sure to leave 10 minutes early for orientation
  • 5:00pm - 5:30pm - Students@SC orientation @ 255-E - MANDATORY
  • 5:30pm - 7:00pm Students@SC mixer @ Exhibit Hall 5 - MANDATORY
• Sunday
  • 9:00am - Committee meets with teams
  • Teams continue to set up their hardware
  • Conference Engagement Option: 8:30am - 12:00pm (Tutorial) Power-Aware High Performance Computing: Challenges and Opportunities for Application and System Developers
  • 12:30pm - 1:15pm Team photos (all team members and advisor must be present) - MANDATORY
  • 2:00pm - Group photo - MANDATORY; invite vendor partners/advisors
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm - Student Cluster Competition 10 year Celebration @ Hilton Grand Ballroom - MANDATORY
• Monday
  • 9:00am - Committee meets with teams
  • 9:30am - Benchmarking begins - runs finish at 5:30pm
    • These runs are used to determine the "Highest Linpack" Award and scoring for HPCG/Linpack in the overall scoring.
  • Conference Engagement Option: 2:00pm - 3:00pm (Workshop) HPC Systems Professional Workshop, Panel: Recruiting and Professional Development of HPC Systems Professionals
  • 3:30pm - 5:00pm Mentor-Protege - if you RSVP’d
  • 5:30pm - Benchmarking finishes
  • 6:00pm - Booth cleanup for opening of Exhibit floor
  • 7:00pm - Exhibit floor opens
    • Must have two students in the booth at all times during exhibit hours.
  • 7:30pm - Student Cluster Competition Opening Ceremony
    • Mystery app revealed
    • The competition will run non-stop until Wednesday at 5:00pm.
  • 9:00pm - Exhibit floor closes
• Tuesday
  • 9:00am - Committee meets with teams
  • 10:00am - Exhibit floor opens
    • Must have two students in the booth at all times during exhibit hours.
  • Conference Engagement Option: 2:00pm - 2:30pm (Best Student Paper Finalist) Compiler-Directed Lightweight Checkpointing for Fine-Grained Guaranteed Soft Error Recovery
  • 5:15pm - 7:00pm TOP500 BoF - Linpack Awards - MANDATORY
• Wednesday
  • 9:00am - Committee meets with teams
  • 10:00am - Exhibit floor opens
    • Must have two students in the booth at all times during exhibit hours.
  • 10:00am - 3:00pm Student Job Fair - Wear something nice and bring your resume
  • Conference Engagement Option: 10:30am - 11:00am (Best Student Paper Finalist) Understanding Performance Interference in Next-Generation HPC Systems
  • 11:00am - 12:30pm Interview Judging - Teams 1-7 - ENTIRE TEAM MUST BE IN BOOTH
  • 1:30pm - 3:00pm Interview Judging - Teams 8 -14 - ENTIRE TEAM MUST BE IN BOOTH
  • 5:00pm - Competition ends
  • 6:00pm - Dinner with interesting people - If you RSVP’d
• Thursday
  • 9:00am - Committee meets with teams
  • 10:00am - Exhibit floor opens
    • Must have two students in the booth at all times during exhibit hours.
  • 10:00am - Advisor feedback on reproducibility meeting.
  • 10:00am - 10:30am Student break food outside of 255 and 355
  • 12:45pm - Awards Ceremony - MANDATORY
  • 2:00pm - Competition post-mortem discussion - MANDATORY
  • 3:00pm - Cluster tear down/Exhibits Floor Closes - MANDATORY
  • 3:00pm - 3:30pm Student break food outside of 255 and 355
  • 7:00pm Tech Party
• Friday
  • Teams check out - Mandatory
  • Teams depart