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Mentoring Undergraduates Through Competition

Xuanhua Shi

Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST)

HUST Support

• From HUST
• HUST Support the international travel
• Counting the workload for the mentor
• More opportunities for the winners
• Helping to recruit team members
• Helping to contact the vendor
• By myself
• Provide resources from ChinaGrid platform
• Some master help to train the team
• Ask some industry partners help to train the team

We involved

• SC SCC’14 (Overall No. 5, Linpack No. 3)
• ISC SCC’13 (Highest LINPACK award)
• ASC’13 (Best MIC performance award)
• The China RDMA Programming (First

prize@2013, …)

• Parallel Application Challenge(…)

Changes in curriculum

• Change one
• data structure —> parallel data structure
• add three
• Parallel Programming Principle and Practice
• The Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula Association

for Computing Machinery (ACM) CS 2013 Exemplar

• Introduction to computer systems
• Functional programming

Growing new HPC talent?

• What’s a HPC talent?
• know MPI+x?
• know pvfs?
• …
• Think with system knowledge

Real talents

• The team members
• One in Google(Germany), One (captain, 2013) in Microsoft
• One (captain, 2014) runs a start-up as CEO
• Two pursuing PHD abroad
• some of them are still studying at HUST
• The successful story influences…
• Many students came to my office
• …

Is it worthwhile?

• For mentoring, it is! We have fun!
• A little frustrating: The original purpose is find

some PH. D candidate

• For the institution, if the team wins, absolutely! or

it maybe!

• For the sponsor, I think it is.
• For the conference, it is.

Some open questions

• How to make SCC simple? e.g., no need to find a sponsor.
• How to select the finalists?
• How to have more fun in the competition?
• How to make a good mentoring?
• How to make it a big impact?
• How to make HPC more ubiquitous? If you take a look at the

big data ecosystem.

• Should HPC be HEC?
• …

Thank you!