On April 13, The University of Tulsa College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and Tandy School of Computer Science hosted the Fourth Annual Oklahoma High-Performance Computing Competition on the TU campus. The event challenged 36 students from local high schools, community colleges, technical schools and universities to demonstrate their skills in high-performance computing. Five institutions participated this year.
Congratulations to the following division winners and their faculty advisers:
High School First Place – Programming Track 1
Moore-Norman Technical School
2-Year College First Place – Programming Track 1
Moore-Norman Technical School
Undergraduate First Place – Programming Track 1
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Second Place
The University of Oklahoma
Undergraduate First Place – Programming Track 2
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Graduate First Place – Programming Track 1
University of Central Oklahoma
Graduate First Place – Programming Track 2
The University of Oklahoma
Second Place
The University of Tulsa
Many industries face a shortage of professionals with high-performance computing skills, which will play a central role in future technological developments. TU’s competition encourages students to learn about the supercomputing skillset [HM3] and pursue careers in this growing field. In an effort to help meet industry demands, the Tandy School of Computer Science also created a minor in high-performance computing.
Since its inception, the competition has generated significant interest across Oklahoma, and student participants have been awarded prestigious internships with BlueWaters, NASA and the National Weather Service. Recent Tandy graduates are employed at super-computer centers across the United States. “Oklahoma has a large number of high-performance computing resources and experts and TU is a leader in the area of high-performance computing education,” said Associate Professor Peter J. Hawrylak.
Event sponsors included the Tulsa section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The competition was organized by TU associate professors Peter J. Hawrylak and Mauricio Papa and Tandy Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology John Hale.
Event organizers would like to thank the IEEE Tulsa section for sponsoring lunch at the competition.