A student team from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Faculty of Innovation Engineering (FIE) at the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) — comprising members Qin Junshuo, Wu Yuze, Mi Xinran, Liu Xiangyu, and Wang Junjie and advisor, Associate Professor Cheang Chak Fong of SCSE, FIE, MUST has qualified to the Top 25 finals of the 2025 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC25). Emerging from over 300 global teams in the preliminary round, this marks the second consecutive year that MUST has set a Macau record as the region's sole representative in the ASC finals. The team will compete against top international universities, showcasing their cutting-edge capabilities in high-performance computing.
The MUST team will participate in the ASC25 finals held at Qinghai University from May 10 to 14. They will compete with previous winners and strong contenders such as Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), vying for awards including the Championship, Group Competition Award, e Prize Award, and Highest Computing Performance Award.
The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge is initiated and organized by universities in China and Asia, and has received active response and support from supercomputing scholars and organizations in the United States, Europe and other countries. It aims to promote the exchange and training of young talents in high-performance computing between countries and regions, improve the level of supercomputing application level, and research and development capabilities, give full play to its technological driving force, and promote technological and industrial innovation. Now in its 12th edition, ASC has become the world's largest supercomputing contest for university students, attracting tens of thousands of participants from six continents.
