The completion of the 8th “Intel Cup” Parallel Application Challenge (PAC2020) at Zhengzhou city saw the outstanding performance of 2 teams of “Super Computer Swan Goose” from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), who won a gold and a bronze respectively in the application track of the challenge.
USTC won gold prize
Application Team-1 exceled with their entry titled “A design and optimization on first-principles-excited-state software for E supercomputing systems”.
First principles, or “ab initio”, is a theoretical computing method based on quantum mechanics, which now has broad applications. Wherefore, the computing related to ab initio takes significant part of time on the supercomputing platform, home or abroad. However, in China, it lacks domestic developed scientific computing software.
On account of that, researchers from Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale and School of Computer Science have been contributing to the development of ab initio excited state computing software, and its optimization on E-level supercomputing system. The team’s work and presentation on this research left a significant impression on the committee of the challenge.
The other team also took part in with sparkles. Their “Fast diagnosis of cervical cancer full pathological sections based on weak supervised deep learning” won the bronze in the challenge.
The team at final defense
Since 2013, there have been more than 40 cities, 300 universities and 12000 students and faculties taken part in the challenge. The consecutive outstanding achievements of USTC in the PAC contest exhibits the comprehensive abilities of the fellow students. It has seen the leading pace on computer science education and creative practice cultivation of USTC.
(Written by QIANG Jiaxuan, edited by JIANG Pengcen, USTC News Center)
