Overview
Between January 2024 and April 2025, I competed in three high-performance computing competitions, working with a variety of supercomputers and cloud infrastructure. Earned 1st place for multiple challenges in the Winter Classic competitions (2024 and 2025) and placed second among US teams for SC24.
Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition (2024)
- Benchmarked HPE Cray EX supercomputers using HPL.
- I collaborated with a team to train and improve the accuracy of a machine learning model developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This machine learning model was used in drug discovery. Our results earned 1st place in the competition.
- I built an environment with Conda and Spack to run the cryo-EM software RELION. My team won 1st place for optimizing the cost of running this software on AWS compute instances.
SC24 Student Cluster Competition
I collaborated with a team to build our own multi-GPU cluster from scratch. My primary contributions were
- Benchmarking the cluster with MLPerf.
- Reproducing the results from a research paper for the reproducibility challenge.
- Using torchvision (PyTorch) to detect cats in images.
Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition (2025)
- Collaborated with a team to benchmark the HPL on HPE Cray EX. Our results won first place.
- I ran quantum algorithms on the IQM Quantum Computers and ran simulations on Oak Ridge National Lab’s Frontier Supercomputer.