HPC Challenge announced

released June 14, 2005

The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) Program and HPCWire are sponsoring an HPC Challenge Award Competition. The goal of the competition is to focus the HPC community's attention on a broad set of hardware and software capabilities that are necessary to effectively use HPC systems.

The core of the competition is the HPC Challenge benchmark suite developed by the University of Tennessee under the DARPA HPCS program with inputs from a wide range of organizations around the world (see http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpcc/ ). The competition will focus on four of the most challenging benchmarks in the suite:

• Global HPL
• Global RandomAccess
• Global STREAM (Triad)
• Global FFT

There will be two classes of awards.

Class 1: Best Performance (4 awards)
Best performance on the base or optimized run submitted to the HPC Challenge website. The benchmarks to be judged are: Global HPL, Global RandomAccess, Global STREAM (Triad) and Global FFT. The prize will be $500 plus a certificate for the best of each.

Class 2: Most Productivity
Most "elegant" implementation of one or more of the HPC Challenge benchmarks with special emphasis being placed on: Global HPL, Global RandomAccess, Global STREAM (Triad) and Global FFT. This award would be weighted 50 percent on performance and 50 percent on code elegance/clarity/size. Both will be determined by an evaluation committee.

For this award, the implementer must submit to hpcc-awards@cs.utk.edu a short description of: the implementation, the performance achieved, lines-of-code, and the actual source code of their implementation. Submissions must be received by Oct. 15. The evaluation committee will select a set of finalists who will be invited to give a short presentation at the HPC Challenge Award birds-of-a-father session at SC05 (Nov. 12-18, Seattle). This presentation will be judged by the evaluation committee to select the winner. The prize will be $1,500 plus a certificate for this award and may be split among the "best" entries.

The awards will be presented at the HPC Challenge Award birds-of-a-father sessions at SC05 and the prizes are sponsored by HPCWire.

 

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