Source: People’s Daily 2014-04-24 Page 16
Written by: He Linping
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

On April 23, in the first round contest of ASC14 finals, three university teams including Sun Yat-sen University, Huazhong University of Science and National Tsing Hua University broke the world record. The host Sun Yat-sen University team achieved 9.272TFlops within the power consumption limit of 3000W, winning the Highest LINPACK Award of this competition.

It is learned that ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge has been held for 3 consecutive times. It is the world’s largest student supercomputer competition initiated in Asia. ASC14 is co-organized by Asia Supercomputer Community, Sun Yat-sen University and Inspur Group.