Dean's Award - Wits
- Year:
- 2025
- Category:
- HPC
- Organisation:
- University of the Witwatersrand
Dean's Award - Wits
Awarded by the University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment in 2025, recognising national and international student supercomputing work with the Wits HPC team.
Why It Matters
- Recognises sustained HPC competition work across national and international platforms.
- Connects to Wits HPC's 2025 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge qualification as a Top 25 global finalist.
- Supports postgraduate study through a full Master's tuition bursary.
HPC Context
The Wits HPC team designs, configures, and tunes student competition clusters under strict power and performance limits. The work spans Linux systems, cluster administration, Slurm, MPI, benchmarking, scientific workloads, and performance tuning.
In 2025, Wits qualified for the ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge final round in Xining, China. Local Wits HPC material also records Talhah Patelia as part of the 2025 Wits team.
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