By: TOP500 Team

The fourth annual Asian Student Supercomputing Challenge concluded last Friday evening with a grand celebration dinner for all the finalists, their advisers, and invited guests at the old Taiyuan University of Technology campus in Taiyuan, China. All 16 teams, nearly 100 students total, were being honored not only for their efforts over a grueling five-day competition, but for making it to the final round from an initial pool of 152 registered entrants in the largest student supercomputing contest in the world.

After two days of application debugging (Monday and Tuesday), followed by two days of application testing and presentations (Wednesday and Thursday), the awards were revealed to a packed audience at the closing celebration held on Friday afternoon. Presiding officials included president of the host institute Taiyuan University of Technology, Lv Ming, and the head organizer, Liu Jun, ASC initiator and general manager of Inspur HPC.

By competing in six application optimization tasks and one team presentation, each student group had the opportunity to earn 100 points total. Over $36,000 in prize money was awarded, thanks to the generous support of Inspur, Intel and other sponsors.

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