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On February 5th 2007, IBM launched a one of its kind initiative to proliferate Cell/B.E. technology while
providing an opportunity to students to showcase their skills and understanding of multi-core architecture. The response has been
overwhelming and very positive, resulting
in some innovative submissions from students.
The winner details are mentioned below. The background of this initiative, ground rules, etc can also be found as you browse through
the rest of the site.
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| Position |
Title |
Student Name |
University |
| Grand Prize |
Brain Circuit Bottom-Up Engine Simulation and Acceleration on Cell BE, for Vision Applications |
Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran |
University of California, Irvine, USA |
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Ashok Chandrashekar |
Neukom Institute for Computational Science,Dartmouth College, USA |
| 2nd Place |
MapReduce for the Cell Architecture |
Marc de Kruijf |
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| 3rd Place |
C-Ray: Interactive Volume Ray Casting Library For Cell/B.E |
Jusub Kim |
University of Maryland, College Park, USA |
| 4th Place |
Implementation of Fast object detection on Cell/B.E. |
Roberto Hiramatsu, Jussara Kofuji |
University of São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Phase |
Date |
Hour
(Eastern time zone) |
| Challenge 1 begins |
February 05, 2007 |
12:00 AM |
| Challenge 1 ends |
March 31, 2007 |
11:59 PM |
| Challenge 2 begins |
February 05, 2007 |
12:00 AM |
| Challenge 2 ends (judging begins) |
July 05, 2007 |
11:59 PM |
| Winners announced |
On or about Sept 05, 2007 |
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| Geography |
Countries |
[Region 1]
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Americas:
Canada (excluding Quebec), Brazil, and U.S.A
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[Region 2]
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Europe:
Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Finland, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, the
Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Turkey,
U.A.E., U.K.
Asia Pacific:
China, India
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| Category |
Prizes |
Challenge 1
[Cell/B.E. Trivia] |
T-shirt — The first 300 students in each region that
successfully complete Challenge 1 and pass the online quiz will each receive a
seriously cool t-shirt.
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Challenge 2
[Top Innovator] |
A total of four Challenge 2 prizes will be awarded. The actual
prizes awarded will differ based upon a student’s geography.
For winning students in the U.S. and Canada
(excluding Quebec):
Grand Prize : $10,000 USD.
Second Place Prize : $7,500 USD.
Third Place Prize : $5,000 USD.
Fourth Place Prize : $2,500 USD.
For winning students in Brazil:
Grand Prize:
Approx. retail value: $9,631.36 USD
- 1 ThinkPad Series X Tablet (6363A7PSM)
- 1
Webcam Live Motion Titanium (Creative Labs)
- 1 DigiMemo A502 -
Eletronic Notepad
- 1 Portable Wi-Fi Router 3Com 802.11b/g
- 1 SD Card
Imation 1Gb
- 1 Compact-Flash Dane-Elec 1Gb
- 1 iPod Video 30Gb
- 1
Palm Tungsten TX.
Second Place Prize:
Approx. retail value: $7,223.52 USD
- 1
ThinkPad Series X Tablet (6363A7PSM)
- 1 Portable External HDD 40Gb
USB 2.0 Iomega
Third Place Prize:
Approx. retail value: $4,815.68 USD
- 1
Notebook ThinkPad T60 (1951AB5SM).
Fourth Place Prize:
Approx. retail value: $2,407.84 USD
- 1
ThinkCentre M52 (8212G4P00)
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| Category |
Prizes |
Challenge 1
[Cell/B.E. Trivia] |
T-shirt — The first 300 students in each region that
successfully complete Challenge 1 and pass the online quiz will each
receive a seriously cool t-shirt!
[Design shown on the left; printed on the
back of the shirt]
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Challenge 2
[Top Innovator] |
A total of four Challenge 2 prizes will be awarded.
Grand Prize : $10,000 USD.
Second Place Prize : $7,500 USD.
Third Place Prize : $5,000 USD.
Fourth Place Prize : $2,500 USD.
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The Cell Broadband Engine and Cell Broadband Engine Architecture(CBEA)
are the result of a collaboration between Sony,
Toshiba, and IBM, known as STI, formally started in early 2001. The CBEA grew from a challenge to provide power-efficient and
cost-effective high-performance processing for a wide range of applications,
including the most demanding consumer appliance: game consoles.
Cell/B.E. Processor is
an innovative solution whose design was based on the analysis of a broad
range of workloads in areas such as Cryptography, Graphics Transform and
Lighting, Physics, Fast-Fourier transforms (FFT), Matrix Operations, and
Scientific Workloads.
The CBEA and the Cell/B.E. Processor implementation have been designed to
enable fundamental advances in processor performance. These advances are
expected to support a broad range of applications in both commercial and
scientific fields. To name a few, Seismic Computing, Aerospace and Defense,
Medical Imaging, Digital Media & Digital Content Creation, Digital Video
Surveillance, Electronic Design and Automation, etc.
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- This is an overview, not a full representation of the rules and
requirements of the Cell/B.E. University Challenge 2007.
Please refer to the Contest Rules page for a complete list of rules and eligibility requirements.
- Contest details, rules, and eligibility might differ for different geographies.
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"Cell Broadband Engine" is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., in the United States,
other countries, or both and is used under license therefrom.
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