 We have a special edition of RCE coming from the S.G. floor. We actually have the winners of the student cluster competition. We're here you hear a lot of background noise because we're during tear down so we are right after the floor closed so the people are very excited one out but we've got the winning team from the student cluster competition where Brock and I were actually judges yesterday and we are as we say many times in the podcast we're ugly Americans and we can't pronounce foreign names very well at all so it's it's the team from Taiwan we're gonna let them pronounce their school's name there we go see much better we could we couldn't have done that so first off congratulations and I think we want to thank your sponsors as well your sponsors were Acer Technologies Tatong and NCHC they provided you yeah they provided you all your hardware and so yeah so they paid for all of your equipment and how else did the sponsors help you they also paid for our travel fees as well okay great well first off let me ask if everybody could identify themselves what are what are all your names and let's go right around the eggs there yeah my name is Yi Jun Chen I'm Zheng Wei Huang and I'm Mankai Liao and I'm Yi Ma Ma and I'm Yi Jun Chen and I'm Yi Jun Xue hello everyone I am Zhong Yu Huang okay thank you and you are you are the faculty advisor yeah actually I'm not one of the team member and what I'm the now official coach and I give them some training around actually in this whole year thank you excellent so we have 16 members and the faculty member with us here so first off you know how does it feel to be the winner great really really good so what did you have to do for the competition what were the different pieces you were judging yes we are the student class and actually wrong with around the data set it's provided and we are going around the data set in 48 hours with limited power and you had several different applications that you had to run right and a strict power budget what was the power budget 26 am peers and how much is 26 amps what what else what could you do with 26 amps we could beat eight nodes of our cluster with 26 so what were the specific applications you had to run you were limited to a certain set what were those their name D is for chemistry molecule compute dynamic what name D is for molecular dynamic simulation there you go wolf is weather research and forecasting fresh it's an application to model astrophysical code and last they got the password cracking or recovery and so what did you guys do to prepare how did you get ready to come here and and run the applications and on your cluster and things like that what what did you do actually we formed this team about a year ago and we got the applications about six months ago so we first learn about Linux and the operating systems and the knowledge of parallel computing and then when we got the applications we studied the applications from the tutorial from Google from from our own testing and to prepare for this competition so you guys are all undergrad students are you graduate students all of us are undergraduate students for five of us are senior and I'm the only one that is junior what was the the the thing that you did best in the competition so there were a lot of things that you were judged on a bunch of different applications that you just described what what do you feel as a team you did best I think the checkpoint is we do great on password creating because it's we just hear that about saying that we crack we crack a password is what we read is the sum of the other 17s well that's really impressive that was very impressive and you did not have GPUs right yes we didn't use GPU because it's hard for us to implement program on it and some of the other teams at GPUs and you still beat them that's that's very impressive so what was the hardest part what did you feel like was the weakest part of the competition for your team actually we got some problem doing with work because there may be something there's only something go wrong when we compile it but we run it we spent we spent we run it two times because we wanted the answer and when we run the truth out of it so we got spent a lot of we waste a lot of time on sorry some of time on work yes all right so the big question is how much sleep did you get or more precisely how much sleep did you not get as you can imagine the competition there's two nights in this competition and three of us sleep in at the first night and three of us sleep at the second night so one so one of us has to stay overnight at least one night yes so that's about eight hours for these three days a lot of you guys are seniors one of you is a junior are any of you planning on coming back next year as either super seniors or as graduate students or we will not be seeing you with the student cluster competition next year maybe one of us can be no official coach next year the one sitting next to me well might be the unofficial coach next year so she's going to talk something right now if I have a chance be becoming a non-official coach I hope I can do well as the non-official non-official coach as this year yeah like Huang Zhongyu and she won Monkai be here again the assistant administrator who's tuning the third HBCC win pack I'm considering but I don't know whether I will come for sure good what we hope to see you next year both of you so what would you tell any teams who are coming next year both from from your school and from other schools what what advice would you give them I think all of them are great I think all of them do good but but we win just we have a more lucky and you guys know you are the best okay in my in my point of view you guys are the great one you are the best in the whole world and thanks thank you so much let me join this competition and share the honor of you and thank you so much thanks that's great well again we want to say congratulations to all of you again we want to say congratulations to all of you thank you all for coming and we hope you had a fun time and learn a lot thank you have a great trip home