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Cape Town - South African computer boffins have successfully defended their title at an international competition.
Students from South African universities defended their title at the International Student Cluster Competition, held in Leipzig, Germany.
The competition, which focuses on high performance computing, showcases expertise at solving complex problems and the South African team made history as the only team to win consecutively as well as the youngest winners.
The South African team members were Eugene de Beste, Nicole Thomas, Warren Jacobus and Saeed Natha of the University of the Western Cape; Pieter Malan of the University of Stellenbosch; and Ellen Nxala of the University of Fort Hare. The team supervisors were David Macleod and Nicolas Thorne of the CHPC and Vernon Nichols of Dell.
The team, which comprised only undergraduate students, practised at Dell headquarters in Texas before facing formidable opponents from South Korea, the US, UK, Germany, Brazil and China.
South Africa's Centre for High Performance Computing is an initiative of the department of science and technology and implemented by the CSIR.
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Students from South African universities defended their title at the International Student Cluster Competition, held in Leipzig, Germany.
The competition, which focuses on high performance computing, showcases expertise at solving complex problems and the South African team made history as the only team to win consecutively as well as the youngest winners.
The South African team members were Eugene de Beste, Nicole Thomas, Warren Jacobus and Saeed Natha of the University of the Western Cape; Pieter Malan of the University of Stellenbosch; and Ellen Nxala of the University of Fort Hare. The team supervisors were David Macleod and Nicolas Thorne of the CHPC and Vernon Nichols of Dell.
The team, which comprised only undergraduate students, practised at Dell headquarters in Texas before facing formidable opponents from South Korea, the US, UK, Germany, Brazil and China.
South Africa's Centre for High Performance Computing is an initiative of the department of science and technology and implemented by the CSIR.
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