| March 8, 2010 8:00 PM PST | |
32 Core Testing Plan Contest
The Intel Academic Community has launched the Manycore Testing Lab to allow academics to test and validate their applications in a manycore development environment for the purpose of creating classroom course materials that demonstrate parallel programming concepts. The 32 Core Testing Plan Contest encourages academics and their students to think about how applications scale and to sample the resources available to teach increasing advanced concepts around concurrency. The Contest starts March 10, 2010 and will continue to April 23, 2010.
How To Enter
Submit a general description of an application or code sample that you would want to see run in a manycore environment. Entries should include an explanation of why the code will benefit from a manycore environment, the anticipated results, and what tools, if any, you'd expect to use. Contributions have to be written by the submitter, but they can be original work or may be adaptations or extensions of other known methods or techniques in the industry.
Contributions must be received by midnight (U.S. Pacific Daylight Time) on April 23, 2010. By uploading your submission, you agree to be bound by the Contest Rules set forth in this document. If you do not agree to these Rules, do not submit your Contribution.
To be selected as a winner, you must be a registered member of the Intel® Software Network (www.intel.com/software) and either a member of the Academic Community or (in the case of students) sponsored by a member of the Academic Community (www.intel.com/software/academic). You will be asked to enter contact information so that Intel can contact you for program announcements and prize distribution. Your contact information will be treated in accordance with Intel's privacy policy which you can review at http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/privacy.htm?iid=homepage+ftr_privacy.
Prizes
Five (5) Submissions will be selected to each receive one week of remote access to the Manycore Testing Lab (Maximum 40 hours, spread over five concurrent working days), during this time they will receive reasonable levels of support from Intel engineers and upon completing the project, members of the Intel marketing department will assist the winners in creating a white paper based on their results that may be used for promotional purposes.
Criteria and Selection of Incentive Recipients
The five (5) recipients will be selected by a panel of judges based on the following criteria:
(a) Originality - is this a unique approach or especially interesting usage model?
(b) Practical application- is this something that your peers could use?
(c) Clarity -is this something your peers can understand?
(d) Tools use- will you be able to take advantage of software development tools to improve your code? (not required)
Winners will be notified by email at most fifteen days (15) after the submission deadline. An individual can submit up to five (5)different submissions, however no individual or team may win more than one (1) of the five(5) prizes available.
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Terms of Use, http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm
32 Core Testing Plan Contest Rules (this document).
Intel 32 Core Testing Contest Program Rules
1. These rules (including the Intel Privacy Policy and the www.intel.com Terms of Use) govern the 32 Core Testing Plan Contest (the "Program") and set out the terms and conditions between Intel Corporation and its affiliates ("Intel" or "us/we") and each participant ("participant" or "you").
2. No purchase necessary. Purchase does not increase your chance of winning. Void wherever prohibited.
3. You are eligible to participate in the Program if you have registered for the Program.
4. You must speak, read and understand English and you must be aged 18 years or over or you must obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardian before you participate in the Program. If you apply to register for the Program, if you contribute to the Program or the Intel® Software Network community once you are registered or if you accept any Program prizes, you accept these rules. Employees of Intel Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each may not enter. This limitation is void where prohibited.
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6. We may refuse your Contribution for any good reason.
7. Intel provides you with access to a variety of resources on Intel® SN, including communication forums, documentation, download areas, code samples, videos, blogs, articles and Programs (the "resources").
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10. You may be required to sign and return releases of liability, declarations of eligibility, and where lawful, publicity consent agreements, within five (5) days of acknowledged notification[1]. If a selected potential winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible (under these rules or due to a failure to comply with any of the other applicable policies, licenses, rules, and terms of service, fails to claim a prize, or fails to timely return the completed and executed releases/agreements as required), prize [2]may be forfeited and an alternate potential winner may, at Intel's discretion, be selected. Physical prizes awarded for the winning contributions will be sent to participants within six (6) weeks from the date of the notification email or confirmation of the winning participant's physical address, whichever is later.
11. Prizes are personal to the participant submitting the winning Contribution and cannot normally be transferred. All prizes are subject to availability and they may change at any time and Intel may award substitute prizes of equal or greater value. A cash alternative is not available. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received.
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15. We may, on notifying you, immediately suspend or terminate your rights, if you breach these rules or if we reasonably believe that you have submitted a Contribution in violation of these rules.
16. Intel reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend or cancel the contest at any time for any reason.
17. You can withdraw your Contribution at any time by notifying us. If a Contribution is withdrawn your rights to win a prize in this Program are lost.
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