CHPC Student Cluster Competition

The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), a division of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), annually hosts a Human Capital Development (HCD) program for undergraduate students currently enrolled in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields at South African universities, where they spend an intensive week during the winter vacation period being trained in aspects of high performance computing (HPC). Students are provided with remote computing resources. From the candidates that participate in this first preliminary round, ten qualifying teams, comprising of four student participants and one mentor, then participate at the National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure Systems (NICIS) CHPC’s Annual National Conference, with high performance computer equipment sponsored and provided for by our various vendors and sponsors. The team that wins this secondary round is then sponsored and supported by the CHPC to travel to the International Super Computing Conference to participate in the International Student Cluster Competition, in Hamburg, Germany against competitors from all around the world.