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SUMMARY:Team Sol
DESCRIPTION:Student Cluster Competition\n\nTeam Sol\n\nTeijeiro, Uriostegu
 i, Lara, Granados, Flores\n\nAdvisors included, this will be the team's 3r
 d Cluster Computing Competition (although its first in the "major" competi
 tions). The primary advisor and logistics coordinator are invested graduat
 e EE students who placed 2nd and 4th in the last two national-level Winter
  Classic Invitational Cluster Computing Competitions. They submitted compe
 titive HPCG, HPL, NAS Parallel benchmark, OpenFOAM motorcycle simulation, 
 and machine learning application scores utilizing a variety of supercomput
 ers and clusters provided by Google, Cray, NASA (Pleiades), Oak Ridge Nati
 onal Labs (SUMMIT), and AWS. \n\nThe logistics coordinator has a second un
 dergraduate degree in biology, in addition to Electrical Engineering. The 
 primary advisor has studied bioinformatics as well as Electrical Engineeri
 ng.\n\nRegarding the actual undergraduate team, each competitor is trained
  in relevant areas but new to cluster computing. Dante Uriostegui and Migu
 el Payan are assisting the primary advisor with a radiation hardened GPU p
 roject. Throughout the spring they learned to use cmake, make, and linux t
 o conduct GPU programming and even compiler design. They also learned much
  about GPU architecture through their work with open-source GPU RTL design
 s. Expertise gained from this competition will help them to utilize state-
 funded supercomputers to decrease synthesization times and increase emulat
 ion performance with complex designs - a critical verification step that t
 heir laptops will soon begin struggling with, as the complexity of the des
 ign increases. Throughout the rest of their bachelors and master's educati
 on, they will be invaluable to the department for this skillset.\n\nJuan M
 uller is proficient with linux and computer vision. He successfully progra
 mmed a drone to land on QR codes using a Raspberry Pi with an intel Comput
 e Stick 2 VPU, requiring build-troubleshooting on his part. HPC training f
 rom this competition will empower him to train new models with more data f
 or future machine learning work.\n\nDaniel Alvarado was a star student in 
 the University's rigorous microprocessor systems course, and will complete
  an internship working with microprocessors at Sandia National Labs over t
 he summer. As he searches for a topic to research in the future for gradua
 te school, HPC has caught his attention. Participation in this competition
  will elucidate what HPC really is, and reveal new possibilities for a sen
 ior design project and future research.\n\nFinally, Michelle Lara and Jose
  Granados are earlier-on students with programming proficiency and a brigh
 t future. The HPC skillset that follows from participation in this competi
 tion will allow them not only to participate in future student cluster com
 petitions, but also to help the department with simulation-centered resear
 ch. \n\nThus, our team's advisors are invested and trained in HPC. Our stu
 dent competitors are talented and trained in relevant areas, so this compe
 tition will serve to bring many of their skills together to form a new use
 ful skill. As our department has a high need for HPC experts to help profe
 ssors utilize UTEP-owned and State-Owned Clusters and Supercomputers for t
 heir research, the presence of undergraduates, several who are somewhat ea
 rly on, who have aspirations for graduate school will be an enormous help 
 to our school as well.\n\nRegistration Category: Tech Program Reg Pass, Ex
 hibits Reg Pass
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