Six South African students – four from Wits University and two from Stellenbosch University – were crowned as champions at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany this week.
The South African team of Craig Bester‚ Sabeehah Ismail‚ Andries Bingani and Avi Bank from the Wits School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Stellenbosch teammates Ashley Naúde and Leanne Johnson‚ beat 11 other teams from Germany‚ China‚ Singapore‚ Estonia‚ Spain and the USA to clinch the title.
The students participated in the international competition through the Centre for High Performance Computing’s (CHPC) Student Cluster Competition programme.
“We are extremely proud of our talented students who are at the cutting edge of technology. This global win demonstrates that the quality of our education is up there with the best in the world‚” said Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal‚ Professor Adam Habib.
“We should also thank our partners – the Department of Science and Technology and the CSIR‚ as well as industry partners such as Dell and Intel for their contribution to the project. These kinds of innovative public-private partnerships will help us to move South Africa forward‚” Habib added.
The annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) attracts close to 3‚000 attendees from nearly 60 countries‚ and hosts an exhibition with some 150 companies and research organisations to showcase the latest technologies and services. The conference’s annual Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise and features small teams that compete to demonstrate the incredible capabilities of state-of- the-art high-performance cluster hardware and software.
SA students win major international supercomputing competition
Six South African students – four from Wits University and two from Stellenbosch University – were crowned as champions at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany this week.
The South African team of Craig Bester‚ Sabeehah Ismail‚ Andries Bingani and Avi Bank from the Wits School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Stellenbosch teammates Ashley Naúde and Leanne Johnson‚ beat 11 other teams from Germany‚ China‚ Singapore‚ Estonia‚ Spain and the USA to clinch the title.
The students participated in the international competition through the Centre for High Performance Computing’s (CHPC) Student Cluster Competition programme.
“We are extremely proud of our talented students who are at the cutting edge of technology. This global win demonstrates that the quality of our education is up there with the best in the world‚” said Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal‚ Professor Adam Habib.
“We should also thank our partners – the Department of Science and Technology and the CSIR‚ as well as industry partners such as Dell and Intel for their contribution to the project. These kinds of innovative public-private partnerships will help us to move South Africa forward‚” Habib added.
The annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) attracts close to 3‚000 attendees from nearly 60 countries‚ and hosts an exhibition with some 150 companies and research organisations to showcase the latest technologies and services. The conference’s annual Student Cluster Competition is an opportunity to showcase student expertise and features small teams that compete to demonstrate the incredible capabilities of state-of- the-art high-performance cluster hardware and software.
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