SC Conference - Activity Details
The 2008 HPC Challenge Awards
Primary Session Leader:
Jeremy Kepner
(MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Secondary Session Leader:
| Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) |
| Tuesday, 12:15PM - 01:15PM |
| Room 14 |
The 2008 HPC Challenge Awards will be given in two classes: Class 1 and 2.
Class 1: Best Performance awards best run submitted to the HPC Challenge website. Since there are multiple tests, "best" is a subjective term. It has been decided by the committee that winners in four categories will be announced: HPL, Global-RandomAccess, EP-STREAM-Triad per system and Global-FFT.
Class 2: Most Elegant awards implementation of three or more of the HPC Challenge benchmarks with special emphasis being placed on: HPL, Global-RandomAccess, STREAM-Triad and Global-FFT. This award would be weighted 50% on performance and 50% on code elegance/clarity/size.
Competition in Class 1 offers a rich view of contemporary supercomputers as they compete for supremacy not just in one category but in four. Class 2, on the other hand, offers a glimpse into high end programming technologies and the effectiveness of their implementation.
| IEEE Computer Society / ACM | 2 0 Y E A R S - U N L E A S H I N G T H E P O W E R O F H P C |