BNU-SYS Team Wins First Prize and Group Competition Award at ASC26

From May 16–20, 2026, the finals of the ASC26 Student Supercomputer Challenge were held at Wuxi University in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. The BNU-SYS team won the First Prize and, together with Qinghai University, Beihang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities, the Group Competition Award.

About the Competition

The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge is one of the largest and most influential student supercomputing competitions in the world. In the finals, teams must build their clusters on-site under a strict power budget (a total power limit of 5 kW, at least three compute nodes with a maximum of 2 kW per node) and complete the system analysis and performance optimization of frontier application tasks within a limited time.

Awards

The ASC26 finals featured a number of awards, including the Champion, Silver, First Prize, the Group Competition Award, the e Prize, the Highest Linpack, the Application Innovation Award, the Best Presentation Award and the Most Popular Team Award. The BNU-SYS team stood out among the strong contenders and received:

• First Prize
• Group Competition Award, which encourages direct collaboration and knowledge sharing among teams in areas such as equipment support and application optimization.

Award Certificate

Highlights