In this deck, the Radio Free HPC podcast team goes over the results of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. Listen to the podcast: http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode170/RFHPC170StudentClusterWrapupSC17.mp3 Learn more: http://www.studentclustercompetition.us/ Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-hIg Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter

1. SC17 Cluster Competition
Configurations &
Competition Results

2. Competition Results: Overall Winner
• Nanyang was the second team in SC competition history to win both
the Overall Championship and LINPACK awards
• Very tight finish between NTHU and Tsinghua, just fractions of a %
divide them
Medal
Overall Finish
(100% = perfect score)
Gold Nanyang 95%
Silver NTHU (Taiwan) 88%
Bronze Tsinghua 88%
Honorable
Mention
Peking 80%
Average score 70%
Median score 71%

3. Team
Total
Nodes CPU
Sockets /
Node
Cores per
CPU
Total CPU
Cores
CPU
Frequency
Total RAM
(GB) Interconnect
Operating
System
Accelerator
Type
Number of
Accelerators
Total Disk
(TB)
FAU/TUC (Germany)
2
Intel E5-2698
v4 2 20 80 2.6 GHz 256
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA V100 12
Georgia Institute of
Technology (US)
2 IBM Power 8 2 10 40 4.04 ghz 512
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA P100 8
Illinois IT/Maine
South, Adlai
Stevenson (US) 8
Intel
Platinum
8180 2 28 448 2.5 GHz 3072
Intel Omni
Path Fedora NVIDIA V100 8
8 x 375GB
NVMe 8 x
1GB NVMe
MGHPCC, (US)
2
Intel E5-2690
v4 2 14 72 2.4 GHz 1,256
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA V100 8 1.2 TB PCIe
Nanyang
Technological
University,
(Singapore) 2
Intel E5-2699
v4 2 22 88 2.2 GHz 512
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA V100 16
2 x 480 GB
SSD
National Tsing Hua
University, (Taiwan)
3
Intel Gold
6130 2 16 96 2.1 GHz 960
FDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7
NVIDIA P100
(4) V100 (8) 12
2 x 1.2 TB
PCIe, 4 x 1.2
TB SSD
Northeastern
University (US) 4
AMD EPYC
7351 4 16 256 2.4 GHz 1,000
EDR
InfiniBand
Ubuntu
16.04
NVIDIA P100
(4), V100 (4) 8
1TB SSD 8 TB
HDD
Peking University,
(China) 1
Intel E5-2690
v4 2 14 28 2.6 GHz 512 n/a
Ubuntu
16.04 NVIDIA V100 10
4 TB HDD 400
gb pcie ssd
SDSU/SWOSU (US)
3 IBM Power 8 2 10 60 2.06 GHz 1,152
EDR
InfiniBand umbuntu
nvidia 4 v100
4 p100 nvlink 8 8 tb hdd
Tsinghua University
(China) 8 Intel 8176 2 28 448 2.1 GHz 1,536
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7.3 NVIDIA V100 8
2 x 1.8 tb pcie
4tb ssd
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign,
(US) 2
Intel E5-2698
v4 2 20 80 2.2 GHz 256
FDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA v100 8
8 x 1.2 TB 10K
SAS HDD
University of Science
and Technology of
China, (China) 3
Intel
Platinum
8186 2 28 168 2.1 GHz 768
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA V100 12 3 x 6 ssd
University of Texas
at Austin/Texas State
University, (US) 8
Intel
Platinum
8160 2 24 384 2.1 GHz 1536
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7.4 NVIDIA V100 8
2 x 4 PCIe , 10
TB SSD
University of Utah,
(US) 4
Intel Gold
6130 2 16 128 2.1 GHz 768
EDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7 NVIDIA V100 9
University of
Warsaw/Lodz
Tech./Warsaw Tech.
(Poland) 4
Intel E5-2580
v4 2 14 112 2.4 GHz 512
FDR
InfiniBand CentOS 7.4 NVIDIA V100 8
4 x 960 SSD 1
x 800GB
NVMe, 3 x
400GB NVMe
William Henry
Harrison High School
(US) 2
Intel E5-2650
V4 2 12 48 2.2 GHz 1,000
EDR
InfiniBand centos 7.3 NVIDIA v100 8
4 x 480GB
SSDs

4. Configuration changes over time
• Number of nodes dropping steadily over time.
• Total CPU cores dropping over time while
cores per CPU is rising
• Number of accelerators rising steadily as well

5. Competition results: Benchmarks

6. New Benchmark Records
ASC16 ISC16 SC16 ASC17 ISC17 SC17
12.03 12.57 31.15 31.7 37.05 51.77
SC16 ASC17 ISC17 SC17
820.66 992.33 1394.32 2055.85

7. Competition results: Applications
Medal MrBayes
Gold Tsinghua 99%
Silver Nanyang 98%
Bronze NEU 96%
Honorable
Mention
IIT/MHS/SHS 96%
Average score 67%
Median score 64%
Medal Born
Gold Tsinghua 99%
Silver Nanyang 90%
Bronze NTHU (Taiwan) 90%
Honorable
Mention
USTC 83%
Average score 63%
Median score 55%
Medal MPAS (Mystery App.)
Gold IIT/MHS/SHS 100%
Silver Nanyang 99%
Bronze Tsinghua 98%
Honorable
Mention
NTHU (Taiwan) 97%
Average score 72%
Median score 87%
Medal Interview
Gold Nanyang 97%
Silver UT Austin/Texas State 96%
Bronze Tsinghua 96%
Honorable
Mention
IIT/MHS/SHS 94%
Average score 93%
Median score 93%
Medal Reproducibility
Gold Nanyang 91%
Silver UT Austin/Texas State 85%
Bronze NEU 83%
Honorable
Mention
IIT/MHS/SHS 82%
Photo
Finish
UIUC 80%
Photo
Finish
NTHU (Taiwan) 79%
Average score 69%
Median score 77%