Warsaw Team
Student cluster competitions (SCC)
Warsaw Team (WT) was established in December 2016 on the initiative and with the full support of Dr. Marek Michalewicz, the current director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM) at the University of Warsaw, who created a similar student team in Singapore, in December 2013.
The Warsaw team is trained by specialists from ICM. The first tutor of the students was Maciej Cytowski; Currently, Polish supercomputing squad are being coached by Maciej Szpindler, Marcin Semeniuk and Michał Hermanowicz. The main bases for the year-long training are the ICM UW supercomputing center in Warsaw’s Białołęka district and the Ochota Campus.
The name Warsaw Team refers to the origin of the first team members from Warsaw universities (University of Warsaw, Military University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology), as well as to emphasize the support provided by the ICM Technology Center of the University of Warsaw. Over time, people from other universities in Poland (Lodz University of Technology, University of Wrocław) and even from around the world (University College London, University of Oxford) began to contribute to the team. The groups’s name, however, has remained unchanged since 2017.
The team received a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education twice – in the academic years 2017/2018 and 2019/2020. The project “The best of the best” supports outstandingly talented students in developing their scientific activity, enabling them to participate in important international competitions and conferences.
9 SCC finals around the world
SCC are competitions full of technical challenges that combine the so-called book knowledge with practice, and of course with fun. Since 2017, Warsaw Team supported by the ICM, has performed in 9 finals around the world, and in May 2021 the team took part in the finals of ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge for the third time, as one of the few teams from outside of Asia.
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2020
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2018
2017
2021
ASC 20-21
08-12/05/21 | Shenzhen
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08-12/05/21 | Shenzhen
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- Marek Skiba (University of Warsaw)
- Marek Masiak (University College London)
- Patrycja Krzyna (University of Warsaw)
- Jan Malinowski (University of Oxford)
- Paweł Pawłowski (University of Warsaw)
Advisors:
- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
- Michał Hermanowicz
- Łukasz Kondraciuk
Supercomputer:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform
Achievements:
- 1st place in Machine Learning “Language Exam (LE) Challenge”
- 3rd place in PRESTO application
Achievements as an online team:
- 1st place in HPL benchmark test
- 1st place in HPCG benchmark test
2020
ISC 2020 Digital
22-25/06/20 | Frankfurt
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SC20 Virtual SCC
8-11/11/20 | Atlanta
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22-25/06/20 | Frankfurt
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- Tomasz Cheda
- Marek Masiak
- Wojciech Szymański
- Aleksandra Księżny
- Iwona Kotlarska (University of Warsaw)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
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- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
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- National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore
SC20 Virtual SCC
8-11/11/20 | Atlanta
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- Joanna Wojciechowska
- Konrad Litwiński
- Mateusz Nowakowski
- Marek Skiba
- Marek Masiak
- Paweł Pawłowski
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- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
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- Cent OS 7.7 & 8.1 | HPCX 2.7.0 | OpenBLAS, Intel MKL |Slurm, Grafana
2019
ASC19
21-25/04/19 | Dalian
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ISC19
5-7/06/2019 | Frankfurt
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SC19
17-22/11/2019 | Denver
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21-25/04/19 | Dalian
WT:
- Julia Bazińska
- Jakub Kowalski
- Łukasz Kondraciuk (University of Warsaw)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
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- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
Supercomputer:
- 8 nodes | 16 Intel Xeon Cascade Lake CPUs | 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs | Mellanox EDR Interconnect
ISC19
5-7/06/2019 | Frankfurt
WT:
- Kamil Mykitiuk
- Aleksandra Księżny
- Franciszek Budrowski
- Jakub Zarzycki
- Łukasz Kondraciuk (University of Warsaw)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
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- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
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- 2 nodes | 4 Intel Xeon Skylake CPUs |16 NEC Aurora-SX Tsubasa Vector Engines | Mellanox EDR Interconnect.
Sponsors:
- NEC
- Western Digital
- DCX
Achievements:
- 3rd place in STREAM benchmark test
- 5th place in CP2K application
SC19
17-22/11/2019 | Denver
WT:
- Tomasz Cheda
- Łukasz Kondraciuk
- Iwona Kotlarska
- Aleksandra Księżny
- Marek Masiak (University of Warsaw)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
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Advisors:
- Marcin Semeniuk
Supercomputer:
- 5 nodes | 4 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU | 2 Intel Xeon Cascade Lake | Mellanox EDR Interconnect
Sponsors:
- Lenovo
- Madu
2018
ISC18
24-28/06/2018 | Frankfurt
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SC18
11-12/11/2018 | Dallas
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24-28/06/2018 | Frankfurt
WT:
- Julia Bazińska
- Marcin Mielniczuk
- Jarosław Ławnicki
- Adam Sobecki (University of Warsaw)
- Maciej Korpalski (Wroclaw University)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
Team presentation:
Advisors:
- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
Supercomputer:
- 3 nodes |6 Intel Xeon Haswell CPUs
Sponsor:
- Mellanox
Achievements:
- 4th place in Deep Learning – Tensor Flow challenge
SC18
11-12/11/2018 | Dallas
WT:
- Julia Bazińska
- Adam Sobecki
- Kamil Mykitiuk
- Łukasz Kondraciuk
- Jakub Kowalski (University of Warsaw)
- Maciej Korpalski (Wrocław University)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
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Advisors:
- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
Supercomputer:
- 4 nodes | 8 Intel Xeon Skylake CPUs | 8 NVIDIA V100 GPUs | GigaIO’s FabreX Interconnect
Sponsors:
- GigaIO
- Nvidia
2017
ASC17
24-28/04/2017 | Wuxi
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SC17
12-17/11/2017 | Denver
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24-28/04/2017 | Wuxi
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- Jan Kopański
- Marcin Mielniczuk
- Adam Sobecki
- Szymon Pajzert (University of Warsaw))
- Bartosz Zięba (Military University of Technology)
- Michał Bedliński (University of Warsaw)
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- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
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- 4 nodes | 8 Intel Xeon Broadwell | 8 NVIDIA P100 GPUs | Mellanox FDR Interconnect
Sponsors:
- Inspur
- Nvidia
Achievements:
- 2nd place in category High Performance Linpack
- 29.79 TFlop / s on a system consisting of four Inspur servers – each equipped with two Intel Broadwell processors and two Nvidia P100 cards.
- The team also obtained high marks in the tasks related to: the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark, molecular dynamics calculations using Lammps software and machine learning for the purposes of predicting traffic intensity.
SC17
12-17/11/2017 | Denver
WT:
- Adam Sobecki
- Jarosław Ławnicki
- Marcin Mielniczuk
- Szymon Pajzert (University of Warsaw)
- Piotr Konopełko (Lodz University of Technology)
- Dominik Psujek (Warsaw University of Technology)
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- Marcin Semeniuk
- Maciej Szpindler
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- 4 modes | 8 Intel Xeon Haswell CPUs | 8 NVIDIA V100 GPUs | Mellanox FDR Interconnect
Sponsors:
- Boston IT
- Nvidia
- Cool IT
Papers:
- Student Cluster Competition 2018, Team University of Warsaw, University of Wroclaw, Warsaw University of Technology: Reproducing performance of a multi-physics simulations of the Tsunamigenic 2004 sumatra megathrust earthquake on the intel skylake architecture
- Critique of Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with a Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver by SCC Team from University of Warsaw
Papers:
- Student Cluster Competition 2018, Team University of Warsaw, University of Wroclaw, Warsaw University of Technology: Reproducing performance of a multi-physics simulations of the Tsunamigenic 2004 sumatra megathrust earthquake on the intel skylake architecture
- Critique of Computing Planetary Interior Normal Modes with a Highly Parallel Polynomial Filtering Eigensolver by SCC Team from University of Warsaw