STUDENT CLUSTER
COMPETITION
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
June 10-12, 2025
STUDENT CLUSTER COMPETITION
As part of our mission to expose young people to high performance computing, ISC High Performance and the HPC-AI Advisory Council will host the 15th edition of the international Student Cluster Competition.
This annual competition introduces student teams to the HPC community, including the systems and the applications that are being used by scientists and researchers.
Visit the competition team’s page for updates and follow the competition’s development on X. #ISC26_SCC #ISC26
Past Dates
AUG 1, 2025
Team Submission is Open
NOV 14, 2025
Submissions Ends
DEC 8, 2025 9:00 AM PT
Team Announcement
MAR 23, 2026 9:00 AM PT
Virtual Opening Ceremony
MAY 8, 2026
Virtual Competition Ends
MAY 11 - May 22, 2026
Virtual Team Interviews
JUNE 23, 2026 3:00 PM CEST
In-Person Opening Ceremony
JUNE 25, 2026 5:15 PM CEST
Award Ceremony
iMPORTANT Dates
AUGUST 1, 2024
Team Submission is Open
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Submissions Ends
DECEMBER 9, 2024 9:00 AM PT
Team Announcement
APRIL 1, 2025
Virtual Opening Ceremony
MAY 9, 2025
Virtual Competition Ends
MAY 12 to May 23, 2025
Virtual Team Interviews
JUNE 10, 2025 3:00 PM CEST
In-Person Opening Ceremony
JUNE 12, 2025 5:15 PM CEST
Award Ceremony
TEAMS
The competition consists of virtual and in-person segments.
- 21 teams from different continents connect remotely to two supercomputers: the ROMEO HPC Center in France and the Bridges-2 supercomputers in the US, to run HPC applications, perform benchmarks, and participate in assigned challenges.
- 10 teams assemble their clusters and run the micro-benchmarks and HPC applications onsite.
VIRTUAL TEAMS
- AAlto University (Aalto), Finland
- Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Azerbaijan
- Beihang University, China
- Computing Insight UK Team, UK
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (ExaDecimals), India
- Nanyang Technological University (Supernova), Singapore
- National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC), Taiwan
- National Center for High Performance Computing (NCHC-2), Taiwan
- National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan
- National University of Defense Technology (64b brainstorm), China
- National Yand Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Peking University, China
- Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- ShanghaiTech University, China
- Shanxi University, China
- Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
- Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSUSCC), China
- Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University (Texas AM), USA
- University of Helsinki (CSC-IT), Finland
- University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Zhejiang University (ZJUSCT), China
IN-PERSON TEAMS
- Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), South Africa
- EPCC, UK
- ETH Zurich (RACKlette), Switzerland
- FAU/USI (FAU/USI), Germany/Switzerland
- National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan
- National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Stony Brook University, USA
- Tsinghua University (Diablo), China
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (NotOnlyFLOPs), Spain
- University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Special thanks to the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for providing access to their computing resources for the online competition.
PAST WINNERS
We congratulate Team Diablo from Tsinghua University, China for placing first in the onsite ISC 2025 Student Cluster Competition, and Team SYSU from Sun Yat-Sen University, China for capturing the top spot in the virtual part of the ISC SCC.
ONLINE WINNERS 2025
First Place Winner: Team SYSU, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Second Place Winner: Team CHPC, Centre for High Performance Computing, South Africa
Third Place Winner: Team Kent Ridge, National University of Singapore, Singapore
ONSITE WINNERS 2025
First Place Winner: Team Diablo, Tsinghua University, China
Second Place Winner: Team Aincrad Progressors, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Third Place Winner: Team Fausion, Friedrich-Alexander University & University Della Svizzera, Germany/Switzerland
Highest LINPACK Winner: Team Diablo, Tsinghua University, China
WINNERS 2024
ONLINE WINNERS
First Place Winner: Team SYSU, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Second Place Winner: Team Diablo, Tsinghua University, China
Third Place Winner: Team Supernova, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
ONSITE WINNERS
First Place Winner: Team Diablo, Tsinghua University, China
Second Place Winner: Team NTHU, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Third Place Winner: Team RACKlette, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Highest LINPACK Winner: Team Diablo, Tsinghua University, China
WINNERS 2023
ONLINE WINNERS
First Place Winner: Team NTU, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Second Place Winner: Team Not So Slow Slugs, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Third Place Winner: Team Geek Pie_, ShanghaiTech University, China
ONSITE WINNERS
First Place Winner: Team EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK
Second Place Winner: Team NTHU, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Highest LINPACK Winner: Team RACKlette, ETH Zurich University, Switzerland
ISC25 SCC Award Ceremony
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More InformationVIRTUAL
COMPETITION TEAMS
Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC),
South Africa
CIUK, UK
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Jinan University, China
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
National University of Defense Technology, China
North Carolina State University, USA
ShanghaiTech University, China
IN-PERSON COMPETITION TEAMS
Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC),
South Africa
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Tsinghua University, China
University Hamburg + Otto von Guericke
University Magdeburg, Germany
University of Edinburgh, UK
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
