A road to student cluster competition for Thailand

This paper addresses the issues of building a student cluster competition team in Thailand. Experiences in team member harvesting and team preparation are discussed. Interviewing with international team advisors, we found that certain supports, basic skills and attitude of Thai computer science and engineering are missing. The successful teams are usually from China, Europe, and US, where lots of budgets are invested in HPC infrastructures, especially in where top 500 supercomputers are located. The discussions in the paper presents the guideline for those who are interested in leading student teams to the cluster competition and will lead to the basic skill and knowledge development for interested students.