Data-Intensive Distributed Systems LaboratoryBigDataX SCC Program -- Summer 2018
We
are looking for Chicago area high school and undergraduate students
(both domestic and international students) who are passionate about
computer systems, and would like to participate in the
Student Cluster Challenge competition at the
IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2018
conference in Dallas Texas in November 2018. We are particularly
looking for high school students who have had some computer science
exposure through either coursework or hobbies, and undergraduate
students in computer science, computer engineering, electrical
engineering, data science, and mathematics, who do not graduate before
December 2018. IIT/ANL assembled three prior teams in
2014 and
2015 and
2017 who participated in this SCC competition. To apply for the SCC18 team, see the
online application.
The Student Cluster Competition is an annual supercomputing competition aimed at high school and undergraduate students interested in computer systems. Students compete with clusters they designed from commercial hardware to run 5 applications for 48 hours straight to see which cluster yields the best results.
With financial and technical support from Argonne National Laboratory as well as other industry leaders (past support came from Intel, Mellanox, and NVIDIA), 6 high school and undergraduate students will compete on the world stage in November 2018 in Dallas Texas against some of the brightest students from around the world.
- IIT: Illinois Institute of Technology
- ANL: Argonne National Laboratory
- UChicago: University of Chicago
Mentors (bigdatax-scc@datasys.cs.iit.edu):
- Ioan Raicu (IIT)
- Kyle Chard (UChicago)
- William Scullin (ANL)
- High school student or Undergraduate student in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Engineering
- Both domestic and international students are eligible
- Minimum GPA 3.0
- Be a student in the Chicago area; for universities, we are specifically targeting students from Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, and Loyola University.
- High school students, women and minorities are encouraged to apply
- The final 6 students selected to be on the official SCC17 team (decisions made by August, 2018) would have to continue preparing for this competition in the Fall 2018 semester with a commitment of 10 hours a week, and be willing to travel to Dallas Texas in November 2018 on an all expense paid trip to the IEEE/ACM SC 2018 conference.
Important Dates:
- Application deadline: March 30th, 2018
- Notification of decision: April 16th, 2018
- Program starts: June 11th, 2018
- Program ends: August 17th, 2018
- Competition: November 2018
Program Highlights:
- Spend 10 weeks immersed in systems work in understanding high-performance computing, as well as tuning scientific applications on cutting edge computing platforms and networks.
- Prepare for college (for high school students) and graduate school (for undergrads)
- Attend the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2018 conference in Dallas Texas in November 2018 (all expenses paid by IIT and/or SC18)
- Some financial support is available, and will be included in the offer letter, depending on the number of qualified students who will participate
Online Application:
To apply to the program, please submit your complete online application by the March 10th deadline. For any questions, please send email to bigdatax-scc@datasys.cs.iit.edu.