- Teams of up to six students will complete a number of online challenges over the weeks leading up to the conference, followed by a series of challenges during the event itself on 7-8 December.
- Based on the CIUK competition, a CIUK team will be identified to compete in the International Supercomputing (ISC 2024) Student Cluster Challenge in June 2024.
- Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate.
- Travel and accommodation is provided for teams during the conference in Manchester in December.
Team registration closes at 5pm on WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER
Following the success of our Student Cluster Challenges at CIUK 2020, CIUK 2021 and CIUK 2022 the competition will return in 2023 for it's fourth edition. As in 2022 this years' Student Cluster Competition will be a hybrid competition with a series of online challenges leading up to the conference followed by some physical, hands-on challenges during the conference itself.
Exact details of the challenges are currently being confirmed and the challenge website will be updated when we have the final list. We will be adding an FAQ section and a full set of competition rules, along with a scoring matrix. We will also explain exactly how much time we expect each team to need to set aside in order to complete the challenges. However, our preliminary plan includes 3 or 4 online challenges at two week intervals with another 3 or 4 challenges during the conference in December.
The agenda for the competition will be finalised once our partner vendors are confirmed but we expect the online challenges to begin in October:
Monday 6 November – Challenge 3 Presentation - OCF Wednesday 8 November – Challenge 3 (ONLINE CHALLENGE) - OCF Monday 20 November – Challenge 4 Presentation - Boston Ltd Wednesday 22 November – Challenge 4 (ONLINE CHALLENGE) - Boston Ltd Friday 8 December – Challenge 8 (10am) - OCF / Results announced (pm)
CIUK 2023 Cluster Challenge Teams
"Ctrl-Alt-Delete" | "ImParallel"  | "The Compute Cortex"
 | "Data Doctors" |
CIUK 2023 Cluster Challenge Partner Companies
The winners of the first three competitions - Durham University (
2020 and
2022) and a combined team from Bristol and Bath Universities (
2021) - went on to represent CIUK in the ISC Cluster Competition and once again we will be offering our winning team this opportunity, with a place at
ISC’24 already confirmed.
If you would like to register a team to compete at CIUK 2023 please fill out this online form. If you have any questions please contact us at
CIUK@stfc.ac.uk.
