Winners of the 2020 Asia-Pacific HPC-AI Competition Announced
November 18, 2020The HPC-AI Advisory Council in collaboration with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore today announced the university team winners of the 2020 APAC high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) competition. The ‘TinpoC’ team from the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan returned to the winner’s circle with another first place victory, together with second placed National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan and China’s Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in third. Special merit awards were also presented to teams from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and team ‘Valkyrie’ from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. Find out more in the Press Release
Simulation shows how cough droplets spread in tropical climate
November 9, 2020A*STAR researchers in Singapore have developed a simulation which more accurately models the spread of droplets when a person with Covid-19 coughs in Singapore’s tropical environment. Working closely with the National Supercomputing Centre, they fed a combination of physics and mathematical equations, based on prior studies on the coronavirus, into a supercomputer to produce their simulation.
Singapore Polytechnic is first local polytechnic to sign MoU with NSCC for full access to supercomputers
October 7, 2020Singapore Polytechnic (SP) and Transwarp, with the support of the Ministry of Education, AI Singapore (AISG) and National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), launched the first-of-its-kind local AI competition – the inaugural Singapore edition of the virtual Collegial Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition (CAIIC) 2020. The competition enables youths from the junior colleges, Institute of Technical Education (ITE), polytechnics, universities and the public in Singapore to identify and develop innovative AI solutions. Singapore Polytechnic also announced a new partnership with NSCC to enable Singapore Polytechnic’s staff and students to develop AI innovations for local industries. Read more about the SP-NSCC MoU and the competition in the Media Release
Supercomputers to Give ITE a Boost in its Applied Artificial Intelligence Projects
October 2, 2020ITE will leverage the power of high performance computing (HPC) for use in applied AI projects, pedagogy, workshops and training, and HPC-related student competitions in a new collaboration with NSCC. An MOU was signed between ITE and NSCC in a virtual ceremony on 2 October 2020. “Apart from providing local researchers with easy access to national supercomputing resources and capabilities to create new smart nation innovations, it is equally important to get our youth started early on HPC to nurture the next generation of data scientists, genomics researchers, advanced manufacturing technologists and AI scientists,” said Associate Professor Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive of NSCC. Read more in the Media Release
Record Number of Student Teams to Participate in the APAC HPC and AI Competition
June 30, 2020The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) in collaboration with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore today announced the teams competing in the co-organized, third annual APAC HPC-AI Competition supporting ongoing student development and mastery in high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) disciplines. Comprised of undergraduate and graduate competitors from some of Asia Pacific’s leading academic institutions, thirty teams complete the 2020 roster and will compete across the region in an all remote contest.
HPC-AI Advisory Council and ISC Group Announce Winners of the 9th Annual Student Cluster Competition
June 30, 2020The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) in collaboration with the ISC Group revealed the teams topping the 2020 leaderboard for the ninth annual ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC). As a consequence of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the ISC High Performance conference organizers quickly reorganized the event into an “all virtual” SCC in just a few short weeks. Competitors hailed from eleven different locations around the world, with a total of eighty-two students taking part in the 2020 competition. The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore provided HPC system resources that allowed the international teams to coordinate and demonstrate their proposed solutions to complex real-world scenarios in a completely virtual setting.
ISC 2020’s Student Cluster Competition Winners Announced
June 24, 2020Students from China’s University of Science and Technology (USTC) won first place in this year’s annual Student Cluster Competition at the ISC 2020 Digital conference. The USTC team, comprised of six members, beat out 14 other student teams from 11 countries to win the prestigious award. The team from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) was presented with the competition’s inaugural Honorable Mention award. This year’s competition, which was held fully online and made possible using the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore’s HPC resources, focused on the global fight against Covid-19 by including applications that address education and applied learning towards accelerating bioscience research and discovery. The teams, totaling 80 students, were tasked to test several applications used by scientists and researchers for finding a cure for the pandemic.
Making the Team South Africa: Defending the Crown
June 15, 202082 university students from 11 countries are working feverishly on a cluster located at the National Supercomputing Centre of Singapore to try to win the ISC 2020 Student Cluster Competition golden crown. One of these teams is from the Centre for High Performance Computing located in South Africa. This is their seventh appearance in the ISC cluster wars and they’ve built up an incredible record of four gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze.
BSC and FIB-UPC Team Participates Virtually in the ISC Student Cluster Competition 2020
June 10, 2020The team “Not Only FLOPs“, made up of six students from the Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB-UPC) and guided by six advisors from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), are participating in a new edition of the Student Cluster Competition at the ISC20 Conference. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the ISC20 conference has been transformed into a virtual event, and the HPC Advisory Council, organizing the Student Cluster Competition, decided to keep the competition allowing all teams to race using the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) cluster in Singapore as a playground.
HPC-AI Advisory Council and ISC Group Continues Annual Student Cluster Competition as an Online Event
May 19, 2020The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), a for community benefit organization promoting high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) education, along with the ISC Group, organizers of Europe’s premier HPC forum, ISC High Performance (ISC 2020), today announced that the 2020 ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC), regularly scheduled as a three-day live event during the ISC conference, will be held as an online competition. Through the generous support of the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) Singapore, 14 student teams from around the world will utilize the supercomputing platforms at NSCC to remotely configure, code and benchmark a series of HPC and AI applications.
IT And telecom are at forefront in battle against coronavirus
April 13, 2020The almost uncontrolled spread of COVID-19 or coronavirus disease 2019 has unnerved the entire mankind. The first step to control the disease is to understand the virus itself. Since molecular modelling of proteins, genomics or training of Artificial Intelligence is very computationally intensive, various companies and institutions are using or offering their supercomputing powers e.g. IBM’ Summit, University of Texas’ Frontera, NASA’s High-End Computing Capability Portfolio, National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore etc. This has raised the hope that a vaccine may be available in a year’s time as many have already entered trials.
HPC-AI Advisory Council and National Supercomputing Centre Singapore Expand 3rd APAC HPC-AI Competition to Address COVID-19
April 8, 2020The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) and the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore announced today that they have joined the global fight against COVID-19 by expanding the 2020 APAC HPC-AI competition to address education and applied learning towards accelerating bioscience research and discovery. As part of the updated competition, student teams are now tasked to research, find and choose an HPC or AI application that can potentially be used as part of the global fight against COVID-19. Teams must demonstrate testing and benchmarking of the application, as well as explain how this application can best be accelerated.