On July 18,
members of Sun microsystems' NJ/NY Black Employee Network (BEN)
hosted their second site visit from the NJ
Governor's School of Engineering and Technology Program in
the Somerset, New Jersey office. The program is focused on the
fields of engineering, information technology and technology, and
works with high school students that are generally in the top 2% of
their class.
Approximately 30 Sun volunteers came
together to host this interactive day of learning for 90 students. Students had the unique opportunity to hear
from various Sun employees on issues ranging from StarOffice,
Network.com, Eco-Repsonsibility, and future career paths available to
the students.
At the end of the day, the students
were each challenged to enter a Network.com
contest in which participants were to provide an automated
solution to a problem that runs on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
Submissions were due by August 31, at which time the judges ran
each submission, and the finalists to solve the problem with the
least amount of CPU-time and the least amount of wall-clock time won an 80GB ipod.
Sun Microsystems thanks all participants for their submissions, and is excited to announce the winners of the “Network.Com
Contest for 2007 Governor's School of Engineering & Technology
Program” contest.
Five of the total submissions computed the correct result in
approximately the same amount of time, earning a five-way tie for
“Category A: A valid solution computed with the least amount of CPU
time consumed”.
The five first place winners are (in alphabetical order by last name):
Christopher Camastra
Phillip DiSanto
Anthony Hsu
Anthony Leontiev
David Vetrano
Congratulations to all the winners!
