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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 Yeh-Ching Chung and Che-Rung Lee, 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.