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SUMMARY:Daemon Deacons
DESCRIPTION:Student Cluster Competition\n\nDaemon Deacons\n\nCho, Cave, Da
 i, Fang, Langefeld...\n\nWake Forest University is a liberal arts universi
 ty with a predominantly undergraduate population currently listed on US Wo
 rld News Reports with a National Rank of #28. Located in North Carolina, W
 ake Forest University has about 5,000 undergraduate and 3,000 graduate stu
 dents and prides itself on its low faculty-student ratio (1:10). In 2018, 
 we were the first school from North Carolina to participate in the SC Stud
 ent Cluster Competition (SCC), and we have now competed for three consecut
 ive years.\n\nTo prepare for the competition, the Computer Science Departm
 ent created a brand new High Performance Computing class in Fall 2017. It 
 has been taught for 12 consecutive semesters by Prof. Samuel Cho (Associat
 e Prof., Depts. Computer Science & Physics), who is the primary advisor fo
 r this team. Prof. Cho has extensive experience performing research and te
 aching classes in GPU Programming, Parallel Algorithms, Computational Biop
 hysics, and Machine Learning. He has received funding from the National Sc
 ience Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and NVIDIA, Inc. for rese
 arch in those subjects. In addition, our team has three secondary advisors
 , Adam Carlson (Senior UNIX Systems Administrator), Cody Stevens (HPC UNIX
  Systems Administrator), and Dr. Sean Anderson (HPC UNIX System Administra
 tor); together, they comprise the High Performance Computing Team at our u
 niversity’s DEAC Supercomputing Facility (4K CPU and 12K+ GPU cores). All 
 advisors have extensive practical experience in compiling, running, benchm
 arking, and maintaining a variety of HPC applications and hardware. To dat
 e, 41 unique undergraduate students have taken the High Performance Comput
 ing class over the past 5 years. In addition, the Department of Computer S
 cience has committed to funding the travel of our team and transport hardw
 are if our team competes in person. If our team competes virtually, they h
 ave committed to provide Azure Cloud credits until our team receives credi
 t from the  SCC organizers, and they will also provide a dedicated space i
 n the department for the team to compete. \n\nOur current undergraduate st
 udent team consists of Junior (5) and Senior (2) students with majors in C
 omputer Science, Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics, and Politics & Inte
 rnational Affairs (half are double-majors), and minors in Mathematics, Jap
 anese, and Neuroscience. Our team will will consist of six students, but w
 e will switch one student if we compete virtually. Two of the students are
  returning veterans who participated in the previous SC20 SCC, and five ar
 e new students. Our students have taken a wide range of relevant prerequis
 ite classes, including Data Structures I and II, Databases, Parallel Compu
 ting, GPU Programming, Numerical Linear Algebra, and Machine Learning and 
 code in C/C++, Java, Python, MATLAB, R, CUDA, and SQL. \n\nAll team member
 s want to receive a deeper hands-on experience on high performance computi
 ng hardware and software than their other classes, develop their problem s
 olving and teamwork skills, and apply those skills to their research proje
 cts involving HPC and big data, and broaden their career prospects in area
 s such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. T
 hey also enjoyed their last competing experience or heard from other stude
 nts how much they enjoyed it.\n\nTag: Career Development, Diversity Equity
  Inclusion (DEI), Education and Training and Outreach, HPC Training and Ed
 ucation, System Administration, Workforce\n\nRegistration Category: Tech P
 rogram Reg Pass, Exhibit Hall Only
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