From Rich over at Sun’s HPC Watercooler comes news of Sun’s HPC Software Programming Challenge and a chance to win a new laptop
The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge 2009 is designed to promote the use of the Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris by students by having them compete to design and implement the most scalable and best-performing implementation of a common parallel algorithm.
More details in Rich’s post, or at the contest homepage, where you’ll also find a description of the problem to be solved.
Note that you do have to be a student (grads and undergrads are fine), you have to use Sun’s HPC Cluster tools, and the contest ends Aug 10.
This looks like a great contest, but it’s important to point out that it’s only open to European students, per the web page:
“The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge is open to students at any degree level in any discipline who are legal residents of any of the European countries listed in the rules and regulations.”
And from the Rules verbiage:
“2. ELIGIBILITY: This contest is open only to teams of 1 to 3 currently-enrolled, full- or part-time, undergraduate or graduate, university or college students, who are the legal age of majority in their country, province or state of legal residence and residents of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.”
Maybe there will be a follow-on contest for U.S. students around SC09.
Rick – I totally missed that point. Thanks for taking the time to bring it up.
I agree with you that it would be a swell idea to do it around SC09…and if they don’t, maybe insideHPC can. Might be fun.