The Single Board Computer Competition (SBCC) has set the following rules to ensure fair and equal competition among participants.
First, Apple M1-M5 chips are off-limits.
Additionally, participants must use a minimum of 4 sockets and run MPI.
The power limit is set at 250 watts, and the cost limit is $6,000 MSRP (American MSRP).
The competition will include benchmarking challenges, such as the High-Performance Linpack (HPL), D-LLAMA, and MDTest.
There is a application challenge, which will be the IQ-TREE Application and the Mystery Application.
The Mystery Application will be revealed on the day of the competition.
The SBCC competition will be held virtually.
The event will take place on April 9-11th 2026.
Participants are only allowed to set up and touch the physical cluster hardware on the first day (April 9th, 2026) from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm local time.
Participants may only be connected to the cluster during official competition hours from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm local time each day.
Clusters may continue to run jobs outside of official competition hours if a job scheduler was started before 5:00 pm local time each day.
To measure efficiency, the GFLOPS/watt for the chips being tested will be recorded based on HPL results.
A sample result of what is expected can be found here: https://github.com/deater/performance_results.
We just want a table with the chips and the gflops/watt.
The SBCC competition presents a unique opportunity for participants to showcase their skills in building and optimizing single board computer clusters, while also gaining valuable knowledge and experience in the field of high-performance computing.
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