New student contest!
Attention students in Europe! The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge has just recently begun and there is a top prize of a Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop up for grabs! Students may work in teams of up to three members, with all members on the winning team receiving a laptop as well as a travel allowance to attend the Sun HPC Software Workshop in Germany. Second- and third-place winners will receive new iPods.
The Sun HPC Software Programming Challenge 2009 looks to promote Sun HPC Software, Developer Edition 1.0 for OpenSolaris amongst students by giving them an opportunity to compete in the design and implementation of 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. The software includes the 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 an OpenSolaris 2009.06 installation and is all freely available for download.
The winner will be determined by linking a special benchmarking application to your library and letting it run on a previously unknown SGE cluster installation. See the contest guidelines for more information.
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. So check it out and pass the information along to all your (student) friends! The deadline for the contest is August 10.
