README.ISC17-SCC

# Competition rules

The Code Challenge competition is composed by three parts:
- run a provided input case (pe-23.LOCAL.in) on the system of the competition 
  prior to the competition, submit the output to SCC committee by Friday 
  June 16th 5:00pm UTC
- run during the competition the known input case (pe-23.LOCAL.in) then prove 
  during the competition to be able to replicate a similar timing submitted 
  previously. It is allowed to tune and modifying further the code during the 
  competition itself but all code.
- run an unknown input case provided during the competition
  
During the competition, each team is allowed to modify the miniDFT code without 
any limitation apart comply with verification rules. Changes include linking
optimized libraries, improving multi-threading, play with optimization flags,
porting of portion (or entire) code on varios accelerator flavors, rewrite
parallelism, reimplement an algorithm, etc. There is no upper bound of how many 
lines of code can be modified.

Each team has to make public on GitHub the entire miniDFT code before the
competition starts and notify the location of the public repository to SCC 
committee by Friday June 16th 5:00pm UTC. It is allowed to tune and modifying 
further the code during the competition but new changes have to be publicly 
shared.

All teams will be able to see all GitHub public repositories.


# Verification

The benchmark runs are valid if the final total energy agrees with the 
reference value to within 1e-5 Ry. It is possible to extract the final total 
energy by doing this:

$ grep "!    total energy              =" ./<path-to-output-file>


 # Timing

The time measured by the miniDFT benchmark excludes initialization and 
finalization stages. It is labeled "Benchmark_Time" (without quotes) and is on 
the final line of output.

$ grep "Benchmark_Time :" ./<path-to-output-file>


# Submission and Reporting

Each team has to make public on GitHub the entire miniDFT code before the 
competition starts by Friday June 16th 5:00pm UTC. At the same time the team 
have to produce a short report and/or presentation describing the activity done 
on the code. Providing only the code is not sufficient. 

If not the entire team has contributed in modifying the code, the people 
involved in the code porting and development need to be named explicitly.


# Evaluation

The overall score is computed considering the following three factors:
A - Ranking walltime obtained running the unknown input (40%) 
B - Work done to optimize and porting the code (40%)
C - Ranking walltime obtained by a reproducibility run of the known input (20%)

Below some example how score is assigned:
- if a code is submitted but not there is not a report describing the changes
  then 'A' is zero 
- if a team or the people in the team are unable to answer questions about the 
  work done on the code then 'B' is zero
- if the team cannot reproduce a similar result obtained before the competition
  for the known input case, then 'C' is zero
- if the code runs but fail to generate a reference total energy then 'A' is 
  zero