Students: Win a Laptop in the Sun HPC Programming Challenge

Attention Students: Here is your chance to win a Toshiba OpenSolaris 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.

The Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris combines virtualization technology with a high performance computing platform. This combination includes tools and technologies that enable you to develop, test, and deploy high performance computing applications. The package includes Sun Studio 12 u1 together with Sun Grid Engine 6.2u3 on top of a OpenSolaris 2009.06 installation. All software is freely available for download as a VMWare image. The Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris is a complete OpenSolaris HPC development environment preinstalled and preconfigured in a virtual machine. For developers who are unfamiliar with the OpenSolaris operating system or want a more integrated development experience, the Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris provides a way to start developing with minimal up-front investment of time and effort.

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. See Rules and Regulations below for details. Participants in this programming contest will have to develop a fault-tolerant distributed hash table (DHT) implementation based on the Sun ClusterTools OpenMPI stack provided in the Sun HPC Software stack. Full Story