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The
HPC Challenge Awards will honor participants in
three categories for innovative uses of high performance
computing resources. This will provide opportunities
for contestants to showcase important applications
and platforms. The categories are as follows:
Most
Innovative Data-Intensive Application: As processor
power increases and sensor networks become ubiquitous,
it is increasingly information and its location that
is important. The award will be presented to the entry
that is most innovative with respect to data mining,
visualization, or combinations thereof. Examples of
such projects would include multidisciplinary teams
to mine, visualize, and interpret data.
Most
Geographically Distributed Application: The Grid
has made it possible to link computers around the
world to solve computationally-intense problems, leveraging
the strengths of different architectures in a simple
application. The award will be presented to the team
with the most geographically distributed application
that solves a non-trivial problem.
Most
Heterogeneous Set of Platforms: Similar to above,
we pose a challenge to combine the most diverse set
of architectures to solve a single, non-trivial application.
There
are three award levels: Platinum ($1500 honorarium),
Gold ($1000), and Silver ($500).
Contestants
will demonstrate their entries in front of an audience
on Wednesday. Judges will make decisions on Wednesday
afternoon, and awards will be presented at the Awards
Session on Thursday.
Entries
should contain the names and contact information for
all participants, an abstract describing the challenge,
and any special requirements for high performance
computing resources, data storage or demonstrating
the technology.
For
more information
HPC
Co-chairs:
Radha Nandkumar, radha@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tara Madhyastha, tara@soe.ucsc.edu
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