HPC student leaders will fly the SA flag - IT-Online

More than 120 students converged at the Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) National Conference to compete in its annual competitions, with three teams crowned winners of the respective Student Cluster Competition, Cybersecurity Challenge and Student Datathon Challenge.

Students competing in the first Student Datathon Challenge had to showcase how open research data can be used to come up with creative and innovative solutions to some of the country’s problems. Also initiated in June, participants were given training in data science, research data management and Python. Yet the winners weren’t chosen for their technical understanding, but instead whether their solutions were feasible.