South Africa Students Retains Supercomputing Championship, Beating World Leaders China and the United States

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South Africa has successfully defended its championship of the International Student Cluster Competition, winning the overall prize in Leipzig, Germany.

The announcement made on 25 June 2014, shocked many attendees of the International Supercomputing Conference since it is the first time a team wins the competition two years in a row, beating world leaders China and the United States. The South African Team of six was also the youngest as it was made up of undergraduate students only. Read more

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A South African team of students from UWC and Stellenbosch University (SU) flew the country’s flag high when they claimed second prize at the prestigious International Supercomputing Competition in Frankfurt, Germany.

Team No Windows, consisting of UWC students, were guided by their staff mentor from the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, Peter van Heusden, and their student mentor, Eugene de Beste, who was part of the winning team in the 2015 edition of the competition. See more https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/sa ... n-10117564

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