On Dec. 7, Hsinchu City Mayor, Hsu Ming-tsai made an appointment of President of Tsing Hua University Chen Li-chun, the professors and students of Department of Computer Science who attended the competition of “SCC, Student Cluster Challenge” in the U.S.A and won the championship. The Mayor commended the students of Tsing Hua for their achievement once again and expected the professors and students of Department of Computer Science to win the honor for Taiwan again next year and continue to hold the title of “Proud of Taiwan”.
The competition of SCC organized by Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and Association of Computing Machinery is one of the top competitions in the realm of global high-performance computing. Only undergraduate students are qualified to attend, and the competition is divided into two sections, namely testing the speed of hardware computing for the first stage and testing the ability of handling the computer software for the second stage. Professor Chung Yeh-ching and Assistant Professor Lee Che-rung of Tsing Hua University led six students to attend the competition together. After a forty six-and half hour competition marathon, National Tsing Hua University won the first place and their outstanding performance has made Taiwan shine in the world.
The Mayor noted that at the moment it is an era of high-speed computing, in order to create more high quality English learning environment for the students, Hsinchu City Government has established the “cloud English ebook bookstore”, which contains nine hundred picture books for the kids. The Mayor expected to use the professional skills of the professors and students of Tsing Hua University to make the Hsinchu citizens enjoying the technology of living.
President of Tsing Hua University, Chen Li-chun appreciated Mayor Hsu for taking education seriously, and praise for his idea toward serving the public. “The difference between whether Tsing Hua is in Hisnchu City or not is whether Tsing Hua contributes to the local”, the President said. He also encouraged the teachers and students of Tsing Hua University to pass down the tradition of benefiting to the society and the nation generation to generation.
Professor Chung Yeh-ching emphasized that it was the 5th competition this year in US. The first time Tsing Hua University used the fastest speed computer, while they did not get any position. This year and last year, they used the lower speed computer, they won the championship. He indicated that all the students during the long-term competition marathon they were high-spirited. Hsu Ke-ron the student especially had not gone to bed for over 40 hours. His classmate Lai Yi-cheng made a joke for that because they were used to stay up all night.
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