Setup

The complete duration of Thursday is for setting up your clusters.

You can speak to any outside sources and real people about the cluster and help up until 8am Friday. You are always open to speak to other teams.

General instructions

Please put a video on display of your overall setup and a view of your power monitor. You will be trusted that you will not be accessing your cluster remotely, but leave the cameras on if you can.

Application Announcements

For announcement of application specifications according to the calendar based on your local time zone. Please coordinate with competition organizers.

Networking

The main network constraint is having one exit point to the internet. And that the internet is unable to initiate connections into any of your servers. A computer that is solely running DHCP (or some sort of networking that solely assigns ips) can be excluded from your power budget.

A central switch that has a DHCP for example, would count. However, a router running DHCP connected to a central switch would not count.

Power

For power, since you are remote, we expect you to have a log (aka your video recording) of your power and during submissions include a full log of your cluster’s power consumption throughout the competition.

Access

Teams are required to access their cluster using physical Ethernet cables during the benchmarking and application periods (no wireless connections). Teams may not access their clusters after 5:00pm local time, and are suggested to use a job scheduler for overnight runs.