SA team wins international supercomputing conference

[Bradley Prior]

SA team wins international supercomputing conference

A team of six South African undergraduate students has won first prize at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt, Germany.

The competition, which ran from 16 to 19 June 2019, challenged teams to design, build, and run the best-performing computer cluster.

 

[Easter Bunny]

well done!

 

[Solitude]

That's awesome. Well done to the team!

 

[dabbler]

Congrats. Fantastic achievement.

 

[Xino_sam]

Congrats to the Team. I wonder if they follow MyBB

 

[ToxicBunny]

Fekking well done guys....

 

[konfab]

But can that R6 million computer they built actually run Crysis?

 

[ToxicBunny]

But can that R6 million computer they built actually run Crysis?

It compiles Crysis in its sleep....

 

[konfab]

It compiles Crysis in its sleep....

Compiling code into machine code is not the same as running it.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Compiling code into machine code is not the same as running it.

Psssh... details details

 

[brattex]

Congrats to the Team. I wonder if they follow MyBB

Yes we do

 

[brattex]

But can that R6 million computer they built actually run Crysis?

It has a handful of decent GPUs in it

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yes we do

So then... answer krycors question, can it run Crysis?

 

[quovadis]

They should put this stuff on youtube instead of makeup tutorials

 

[brattex]

So then... answer krycors question, can it run Crysis?

Why run crysis when you can HODL

but to be serious for a moment, it *can* run crysis but we blew the budget - can't afford an MS Windows license

 

[N@t3]

But can that R6 million computer they built actually run Crysis?

Can it run Minesweeper as well? asking for a friend.

 

[brattex]

Congrats!
Tell us about the degree and how much longer you have?

Sorry. I'm one of the team that runs the program at CHPC - not one of the students.

The UCT guys are Comp.eng, IIRC Wits were all CompSci... and all students we select must be undergraduate and remain such for the international round ...

 

[ToxicBunny]

Why run crysis when you can HODL

but to be serious for a moment, it *can* run crysis but we blew the budget - can't afford an MS Windows license

Easy... we can sort that out for you... no problems

 

[brattex]

They should put this stuff on youtube instead of makeup tutorials

?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Not so sure about the Youtube thing....

BUT it would be nice to know the specs and design (if its possible to share that).... be nice to see what you can do with R6m...