Our supporting engineers have been on-site since 8am, and after the preparation the Final is starting since 9am. After participating in several rounds of warm-up, the contestants are much more familiar with the development environment - Solaris + Sun Studio + NetBeans.
Today is a big win of NetBeans C/C++ Pack and Sun Studio Express 3. Of 100 Final teams, 80 teams use it as the prefered development tool, then is Sun Studio, over 10 teams used it as IDE, and the rest are gedit, vi and emacs, totally less than 10 teams.
With the experience of warm-up, the contestants encountered less questions during the contest. All Solaris servers, desktops, networks and printers perform well during the whole contest. One exception happened when the contestant wrote a troublesome program, which tried to output a 1.5G data. We handled this issue with the collaboration with the referee. And other questions are those which we have made a lot of preparation.
At 2pm, the whole contest closed. We have finally took a relax after the 4-day's non-stop endeavor. Thanks everyone who has been on-site to make the contest smooth.
After the contest, we have a conversation with the officials of ACM/ICPC Council China on the future collaboration. We will provide standard contest platform, training and tech support for the 4 stops of regional contests.
The closing ceremony is scheduled at 5pm, Michael Li delievered the thanks address to the ACM organisors. Once again, he mentioned we will sponsor 4 stops of ACM regional contests and provide helps for teachers/stundents who want to use Solaris + Sun Studio + NetBeans.
We have accomplished the "Solaris Cup" successfully. It's time to roll-up the whole story of the "Solaris Cup" and we will send out the roll-up report soon. Thanks to everyone who makes it happen.
The Solaris Cup Banner
Volunteers of Xidian University to help organize the contest 
Final Contest Scene 
Tsinghua University, the Final champion, resolved the first
question 
The banner for OpenSolaris Day made by the hosting university.
Mike was delivering Keynotes and John as the interpretor.
Mike Hayden was illustrating OpenSolaris.
So many students raised hands to ask questions.
The schoolgirl raised questions to Mike about OpenSolaris.
Dave Lin, JDS engineer.
Frank Lin, Solaris Evangelist.
The clouded conference hall.
The scenes of the event.
The students was standing through the event.
Many students was still coming with all seats occupied.
Photo together with the volunteer students. Thank them for the organization.
