Apolo, since its beginnings, has had the participation of both reserch groups' members and undergraduate students, who are specifically chosen to learn about high performance and parallel computing in order to build their careers. This turned out to be an immense advantage when Purdue University sent Universidad EAFIT an invite to take part in the 2014 Supercomputing competition. Since there were already students with some of the abilities, knowledge and training needed to tackle this kind of challenges, EAFIT was able to send a well rounded team whose performance was more than enough to assure future invitations to other Supercomputing competitions around the world.
These competitions began with 2007's first Student Cluster Competition in Reno, NV with the sole objective to immerse both high school and undergraduate students into the world of HPC (High Performance Computing). The events involves a number of international teams competing in a non-stop 48 hour challenge in which they design and build small clusters in order to complete a real world scientific workload.
Student Cluster Competition 14 - SCC14 (2014)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Advisor: Juan Guillermo Lalinde Pulido
Competitors: Mateo Gómez Zuluaga, Pablo Restrepo Henao Alejandro Gómez Londoño
Position: 8
Partner: Purdue University
Sponsors: Matrix Integrations, Rectory
ISC15 (2015)
Frankfurt, Alemania
Advisor: Juan Guillermo Lalinde Pulido
Competitors: Mateo Gómez Zuluaga, Pablo Restrepo Henao, Alejandro Gómez Londoño
Position: 5
Partner: Purdue University
Sponsors: Matrix Integrations, Rectory
Student Cluster Competition 15 - SCC15 (2015)
Austin, Texas, USA
Advisor: Mateo Gómez Zuluaga
Competitors: Camilo Correa Restrepo, Alejandro Salgado Gómez, Pablo Restrepo Henao, Alejandro Gómez Londoño, Johan Sebastián Yepes Ríos, Daniel Salazar Sampedro
Position: 4
Sponsors: Matrix Integrations, Rectory, Apolo
ASC16 (2016)
Wuhan, China
Advisor: Mateo Gómez Zuluaga
Competitors: Camilo Correa Restrepo, Alejandro Salgado Gómez, Daniel Salazar Sampedro, Tomás Ríos Llano, Johan Sebastián Yepes Ríos
Position: 15
Sponsors: INSPUR, Apolo, Rectory, Dirección de Informática, Organización Estudiantil (OE), Camilo Correa student
Student Cluster Competition 16 - SCC16 (2016)
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Advisor: Lev Gorenstein
Competitors: Santiago Suárez Ospina, Alejandro Salgado Gómez, Daniel Salazar Sampedro, Tomás Ríos Llano, Johan Sebastián Yepes Ríos, Luis Felipe Mejía Suárez
Position: ?
Sponsors: IBM, Apolo, Rectory, Dirección de Informática, Organización Estudiantil