| |
![]() |
 |
![]() |
|
| |
| |
|
|
| |
ASC15 Challenges Six Problems |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Monday, April 20, 2015 |
|
| |
The 2015 ASC student supercomputer challenge (ASC15) officially announced the 16 finalists, including the Tsinghua University, Massachusetts Green Team, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technology University.
The organizing committee announced the 6 questions of the finals. The questions are supercomputer benchmark HPL, SKA (Square Kilometre Array telescope) data processing software Gridding, nano scale molecular dynamics software NAMD, the air quality numerical model WRF-CHEM, the computational fluid dynamics software Palabos, and one mystery question (will unveiled on the scene). Among these 6 questions, the Gridding will become ASC15’s “e Prize computing Challenge Award”.
For the first time, adopting the international research project into the game is also a highlight of ASC15. The SKA project, initiated by scientists from many countries, is the largest astronomy cooperation project. The project’s goal is to build the world’s largest radio telescope array, in order to explore the origin of the universe, dark matter, and the mysteries of the universe. The amount of data per second SKA can gather is greater than 12Tb, equivalent to 3.5 times to the 2013 China international Internet bandwidth. Almost 50% of the massive astronomical data were needed to be processed by Gridding software, of which a part of data need to be calculated in real time. That is why the requirements of computing speed is very high. At present, many astronomy experts have been working on the Gridding software optimization, but there is no satisfactory version. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
