As a benchmark of success the SC17 Student Cluster Completion plans to select one or more of these papers for reproduction. If the paper is selected for reproduction, the authors must be willing to assist the student cluster organizers by answering questions throughout the planning phase of the competition. In addition, one of the paper authors must agree to serve as the application expert for the Student Cluster Competition at SC17.
In return the authors will be recognized in a press release associated to SC17, will receive a certificate of recognition from SIGHPC and will receive recognition in the ACM Digital library for the fact that their paper has been reproduced.
Don’t forget to indicate your availability when you submit your SC16 paper.
The SCC runs for about 48 hours straight during which teams of students build and test high-end clusters whose configuration can range from 6-18 nodes with a minimum memory of 2GB per core. Clusters are equipped with a mix of conventional CPUs (e.g., Intel and AMD) and GPU (e.g., NVIDIA K20, K40, K80) or Xeon Phi, but may also contain novel architectures.
The code should be able to run at least on conventional CPUs. Preference will be given to codes that also support GPU, Phi or ARM.
The runs that the competing students are asked to reproduce must be able to run on a cluster described above.
A committee will select one code and associated paper from the submitted applications. The authors of the associated paper must be willing to assist and answer questions throughout the year regarding their application and paper to SCC student teams. In addition, one of the paper authors must agree to serve as the application expert for the competition at SC16 and will help to judge the student teams on the application. Authors will be recognized in a press release and receive a certificate of recognition from SIGHPC.