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Programmers and comp-sci students, would you do this.

N

notfred

Lifer
Copy and pasted from an email sent to me by a professor at my university:
I sent the following message about an upcoming Programming Contest event
to the "cscstudents" mailing list, but since many of you may not be on
that list I thought I'd send it directly to my classes also.

dr.c


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As many of you are aware, CSUS is a major contributor of support for the
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The software
system used to run the ICPC World Finals, for example, was developed by
CSUS students, and a group of CSUS students and Alumuni comprise a team
which is responsible for running not only multiple Regional Contests
around the world but also the ICPC World Finals.

The ICPC is introducing a new type of event to the World Finals
competition this year, and we are looking for a small group of CSUS
students who would be interested in getting the world's first look at this
new event by participating in a system test. The event is called the
"Parallel Challenge", and the Parallel Challenge System Test is taking
place next Wednesday, March 9th, from 2-6pm (local time) at CSUS.

You can find out more about the Parallel Challenge at
http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/finals (click on the "Parallel Challenge"
link at
the top of that page), but here's the basic idea: teams of students will
write programs which run in a "parallel environment" in direct competition
with other teams' program. In other words, code from each team runs at
the same time on a single machine and tries to "beat" the code from other
teams at a special kind of game. The Parallel Challenge will be run on an
IBM Blue Gene computer -- the world's most powerful parallel-processing
machine.

Programs for the Parallel Challenge (and hence for the System Test) will
be written in C++ using the Eclipse development environment; for that
reason, students with at least some familiarity with both C++ and Eclipse
will be given priority. However, the "C++" aspects of the Challenge are
fairly simple; a student with a strong knowledge of Java would likely be
able to get by with little advance knowledge of C++. (Basically, you will
be given C++ class and asked to fill in the body of the class with code
that will stomp on the code written by other programmers.)

If you are interested in being part of getting an advance-peek at one of
the most cutting-edge events around, send an email reply to [name removed].
We are looking for teams of 3 students each, so priority will be given to
students who already have a group -- although individuals will also be
considered. Space for teams in the Parallel Challenge System Test is
limited, so be sure to reply soon if you are interested.

Dr. [Name Removed]
[email removed]

p.s. One additional note: because of the necessity for intense security,
CSUS student participants will have to sign a "Non-disclosure agreement"
prior to being given access to the Parallel Challenge environment; you'll
have to be willing to agree not to release any details of the event until
after the World Finals in April....
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Would yousign up? Thoughts?
 
Would I sign up for a chance to test a new competition format that involves a process fight on Blue Gene?

Hell yes!😀
 
Originally posted by: amdfanboy
Wait, so who wins if you consume all the memory and crash it.
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A process can only allocate up to 4GB of memory (assuming 32-bit address space). But there's no limit on the number of processes you can fork. :evil:

EDIT: Doh! Too slow. 🙁
 
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