There are multiple opportunities for students to participate in HPC challenges and competitions.
The SC10 Challenges -- The SC10 conference Technical Challenges will provide a way to showcase both expertise and HPC resources in friendly yet spirited competitions. SC10 will feature Challenges that have been held previously, but may also include new areas of interest. For example, SC10 Challenges include the Student Cluster Competition and HPC Storage Challenge. SC10 Challenges will be highlighted to complement the conferences Technology Thrusts and Technical Program agenda. We encourage early submissions as SC10 Challenges will be based on having a minimum number of entries. Challenges with little interest may be eliminated.
Questions: Challenges@info.supercomputing.org
SC Education Program Student Contests -- During SC10, teams consisting of six students, undergraduate and/or high school, will showcase the amazing power of clusters and the ability to utilize open source software to solve interesting and important problems. They will compete in real-time on the exhibit floor to run a workload of real-world applications on clusters of their own design while never exceeding the dictated power limit.
More information is available on the Student Cluster Competition webpage.
TeraGrid '10 Conference Student Program -- The 2010 TeraGrid conference to be held August 2-5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will showcase the capabilities, achievements, and impact of this national network of high-performance computing resources. Students from high school through graduate programs are invited to participate as attendees, volunteers, authors by submitting papers and posters, and competitors by competing in a programming contest. Funding support may be available for selected students, depending on need and the content of a separate financial support application.
Students who are interested in attending the conference can register at https://www.teragrid.org/web/events/tg10/student.