As scheduled, the second round warm-up was starting from 8:30am and we was the contest scene at about 8:00am. Although it's a bit early for company, the contest scene was crowded with the contestant teams. After system check-up,About 60 teams (each 3 players) entered the scene and sat for the warm-up. They were going to take the Half Final in the afternoon.
Thanks to the workaround update (patch), we encountered less questions during the warm-up. But we did also get some help requests from the teams. As for NetBeans, some developers killed the IDE, which causes NetBeans hang. The other is the dead-loop of the application will lead the IDE to hang. Sun Studio has less question, except one team can't startup Sun Studio since it quit without cleaning the status of its previous running. To resolve it, we developed a script to clean the status files and project files created by developers.
The Half-Final is starting from 1pm to 6pm. It's the first time for Solaris Developer Environment to experience such a challenge. Unexpectedly, we got very few questions from the contestant. One possible reasons include we have distributed the documents to them. The other is that our patch which resolves most critical bugs.
During the 5 hour contest, the teams have encountered a few times of NetBeans questions of dead-loop application and our engineers resolved this quickly. Another exception is one disk from a contest machine IO errors since the disk has bad blocks. The emergency handling team replaced the machine and our engineers helped to restore the applications. There are few other questions raised in the contest.
It's really a good starting point and testimony for Solaris to enable ACM contest. With today's experience, we believe Solaris can make the ACM Final smoothly. Please stay tuned.
The "Solaris" Cup Banner
The "Solaris" Cup Poster
The Solaris System supports the ACM Code Competition
The Scene of Contest
Contestant Team
Supporting Engineers from ERI
The Leader of University Visited the Contest Scene.
Near the ending of the contest, many teams has cracked 3-4
problems.
