'Supercomputing Youth Camp' Resumes After 3 Years... Jointly Hosted by UNIST and KISTI

4 Nights 5 Days at UNIST Campus, Awards for Gyeonggi Gyohago and Chungbuk Gwago

Students participating in the Supercomputing Youth Camp held at UNIST Engineering Building are experiencing the program.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The 'Supercomputing Youth Camp,' which had been halted for three years due to the impact of COVID-19, has reopened. Ninety youths from across the country gathered to learn about supercomputing over five days and four nights, nurturing their dreams of becoming future scientists.

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) held the 'Supercomputing Youth Camp 2022' from July 25 to 29.

The camp took place at the Learning Commons, a study space set up in the UNIST Engineering Building, with 30 teams from 33 high schools nationwide participating. Each team consisted of three students and a supervising teacher.

Participants learned the entire process of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) based on computing technologies, including supercomputers and the recently spotlighted commercial cloud services.

They studied 'Python,' the programming language most widely used for AI implementation, and conducted practical exercises in data analysis and parallel computing using it. They also studied AI using 'TensorFlow,' the most widely used AI framework.

Following this, teams carried out projects solving parallel computing and AI tasks using software that can actually run on supercomputers and commercial clouds.

Based on the results of the tasks, awardees were selected, including two grand prize-winning teams, as well as recipients of the excellence and merit awards. The grand prizes were awarded to Gyoha High School in Gyeonggi Province (UNIST President’s Award) and Chungbuk Science High School (KISTI Director’s Award).

In addition to supercomputing, a variety of special lectures were prepared to provide diverse experiences for the youths, including 'Interesting Stories of Contemporary Music' (Professor Lee In-kyung, UNIST Department of Humanities), 'Introduction to Quantum Computing' (Senior Researcher Ryu Jeong-hee, KISTI), and 'Stories Using AI' (Professor Lee Jae-yeon, UNIST Department of Humanities, and Dr. Han Nam-gi).

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