TeamEPCC wins Student Cluster Competition at ISC-HPC 2023

The ISC23 Student Cluster Competition brought together 22 teams from across the world, both virtually and in person.

TeamEPCC was one of seven to compete in the conference hall, with another 15 teams competing virtually. Each had three days to demonstrate its abilities in obtaining the best performance from its computing cluster across a series of benchmarks and applications. Each team designed its own cluster, with EPCC's created with the support of sponsor Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), and the EPCC systems team.

TeamEPCC performed outstandingly and was the outright winner across the competition. The team comprised five students from our MSc programmes in High Performance Computing (HPC) and HPC with Data Science, and a third year undergraduate student intern from Edinburgh Napier Unviersity's Networking and Cybersecurity programme: 

• Hristo Belchev, 
• Ikraduya Edian 
• Jaffery Irudayasamy
• Kris Tanev
• Oleksandr Piekhota
• Tomas Rubio Cruz

We thank our sponsor, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), and the EPCC systems team for their support. TeamEPCC have provided us with some initial reaction to their success, which you can read about via the EPCC blog. We hope to share further reaction to TeamEPCC's upon their triumphant return to Edinburgh, but you can keep up to date with their progress via Twitter and you can read more about how they prepared for the competition via this blog article.

Image shows TeamEPCC celebrating its win. Back row, left to right: Jaffery Irudayasamy, Ikraduya Edian, Tomas Rubio Cruz, Hristo Belchev, Oleksandr Piekhota. Front frow: Kris Tanev.