Build the fastest supercomputer for less than $10,000Dallas 16 September 2000 This year, SC2000 will host a competition for teams building there own machine for less than US $10,000 and bring it with them to Dallas. There a number of predefined benchmarks will be run to determine the winner.
This year, SC2000 will convene in Dallas for seven days of technical
programmes, technological demonstrations and exhibits, educational
outreach and mind-boggling visualisations of computational data. The
conference will be held Nov. 4-10 in the Dallas Convention Center. This year's HPC games introduce a new challenge,
pitting performance against price: The $10K Computer Challenge.
Participants are being asked to build or assemble their own
high-performance computing machine (or machines) worth up to $10,000,
and bring these machines to the SC2000 exhibition floor to compete,
running a series of predetermined benchmarks of computer performance.
The benchmarks will exercise an assortment of metrics covering CPU
performance, disk performance and network performance, and various
combinations of these metrics as seen in typical high-performance
applications.
"If you're up to the challenge—the $10K Challenge—now's the time to
get up to speed and enter the competition," said HPC Games co-chair
James Arthur Kohl of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Web-based HPC
Games application, along with rules for qualification and scoring, can
be found at http://www.sc2000.org/games.
A gzipped tar file of benchmark source code is now ready for download
at http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~kohl/HPC.GAMES/hpcg1.0.tar.gz.
The latest benchmark submission results can be obtained in real-time on
line at http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~kohl/cgi-bin/HPC.GAMES/score.cgi.
SC2000 is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery's
Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture.
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