After two months of preliminary competition, Geekpie from ShanghaiTech University successfully submitted a proposal to the Asia Supercomputing Community (ASC) HPC Contest. The team, comprising of five undergraduate students and led by Dr. Shu Yin, an assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University, finished first at the preliminaries and gained acceptance to the finals, which will take place in May at Nanchang University.
It is the first time that ShanghaiTech University has participated in an international supercomputing competition. The team was initiated by junior students Xie Zhiqiang and Luo Haocong, and finalized with senior students Liu Jianzhong, Chen Chen, and a sophomore Shen Zheqi. The team also received technical support from Mr. Wang Jinlei.
ASC is one of the three international supercomputing competitions, along with ISC and SC. ASC '18 attracted over three hundred supercomputing teams worldwide. Its Nobel Prize-winning application cryo-EM optimization and artificial intelligence (AI) reading comprehension problems have received attention from around the world.
