ISC25 Student Cluster Competition
Took part online, with a Wits team, in the ISC25 Student Cluster Competition, which is held in Hamburg.
The ISC Student Cluster Competition is held each year in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the International Supercomputing Conference. Student teams build and tune a cluster to run real scientific applications within strict performance and power limits.
In June 2025 my Wits team took part online rather than in Hamburg. The organisers gave me a certificate of achievement for taking part.
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Full tuition
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Special Dean's Award
Full tuition for a Master's at Wits, awarded to members of the Wits HPC team for national and international student supercomputing results.
University of the Witwatersrand
2nd overall
Award
2nd overall, CHPC National Student Cluster Competition
Wits A placed second of ten teams, won the MATLAB Coding Challenge and took the highest LINPACK result.
Centre for High Performance Computing
4 firsts
Award
First place in four challenges, Deep Dive into Blockchain
Won the final project and three challenges at the University of Zurich Blockchain Center's summer school in Stellenbosch, on an industry scholarship.
University of Zurich Blockchain Center