The opening ceremony started from 8:30pm. The Officials from the ACM/ICPC Aisa Committee, the hosting school, and local government, attended and spoke on the ceremony. Prof. Chen Ping, Vice President gave the welcome speech and highly appreciated Sun's sponsorship and on-site technical support for the event. Jason Tong delivered welcome address and announced that we will sponsor the 4 ACM/ICPC Contest in China Mainland, which will adopt Solaris + Sun Studio + NetBeans as the standard competition platform. Image that thousands of teams of academic developers will use the standard platform to take the ACM Contest, it's really a huge "Solaris adoption". On the ceremony we announce the establishment of the "Solaris Technology Center" at Xidian University. Meanwhile, we have established the long-term collaboration relationship with Xidian University.
Immediately after the opening ceremony, we have delivered a special Sun University Tour at Xidian University, which attracts the ACM contestant students from a great number of universities and local students in Xi'An city. Totally 929 students joined this event and learn the newest Sun Developer Environment - Solaris + Sun Studio + NetBeans - which is used in Xidian University ACM Contest and is becoming the standard platform in 2007's ACM contest in Mainland China.
Since 12:30pm, our tiger team started to prepare for the last warm-up for the Final contest. About 100 teams who will take tomorrow's Final joined the warm-up. We have went through a comprehensive check of the contest environment, from Network to printer, Sun Studio and NetBeans, to ensure everything goes smoothly tomorrow. We encountered more problems with NetBeans, for instance, NetBeans can't run to curse when configuring gnu compiling chain. Please wait for Ye Liang to clean up the NetBeans problem list. Sun Studio Express 3 is just working fine.
This contest gave a wonderful chance to adopt and test our Developer Tools. As you know, of the about 100 teams, over 80% of the contestants use NetBeans C/C++ Pack as IDE, and over 10% developers write code on Sun Studio Express 3, and 2 teams use emacs, 2 with vim/gvim.
Tomorrow is the Final contest, Let's go all out for that exciting moment.
Below are the pictures of the day:
Banners and Posters of the "Solaris" Cup.
Prof. Chen Ping, Vice President of Xidian University annoucned the
opening of the "Solaris" Cup ACM/ICPC Xidian Contest.
Jason Tong signed the collaboration memo with Xidian
University.
Prof. Chen Ping, Vice President of Xidian University
and
Jason Tong openned the "Solaris" Collaboration Lab in Xidian
University.
Prof. Huang, Chair of ACM/ICPC Aisa delivered the welcome address.
Scenes of the opening ceremony.
Welcome address by Jason Tong.
Coach preparation meeting.
Support engineers.
Scenes of contest site.
Solaris is the key theme of this contest.
Programming with Sun Studio Express 3.
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