OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest
The OpenSPARC Community Innovation Awards Contest is part of Sun's $1
Million Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, and will be
responsible for awarding $175,000 of the $1 Million total prize. The
contest runs from January 28 until June 30, 2008. Contest submissions
will be judged during the month of July, and awards will be given out
during the month of August.
The OpenSPARC Contest awards categories and award amounts are as follows:
* A. Grand Prize: $35,000
* B. First Prizes: ($20,000 each category)
o i.Best University level Lab Project based on OpenSPARC:
o ii. Best University level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI
course
o iii. Best Architecture White paper or Application Notes
o iv. Best New Bus Interface creation as a contribution to the
OpenSPARC community
o v. Best Demo of an application running on an FPGA
o vi. Best Adaptation of a single-thread application to a
multi-thread CMT (Chip Multi Threaded) environment
o vii. Best submission that makes a substantial contribution
to the OpenSPARC community and does not constitute any of
the above described Categories
The Grand Prize winner will also be the First Prize Winner in the
Category for which the Entry was submitted.
The OpenSPARC Contest will be judged by the OpenSPARC Contest Jury
Panel, a group of OpenSPARC industry experts selected from within the
OpenSPARC community representing a diverse background of expertise and
experience. A complete list of Judges will be posted to the web site,
but here are a few panelists who have agreed to judge the Contest Entries:
Fred DeSantis, retire technology executive, former Vice President, SPARC
Volume Processors, Sun Microsystem's Microelectronics Group
Renu Raman, Executive-in-Residence, Tallwood Venture Capital
Professor Jose Renau, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department
of Computer Engineering
Paul Hartke, Xilinx University Program, Xilinx Corporation
Professor Preeti Ranjan Panda, Department of Computer Science &
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Peggy Aycinena, Editor, EDA Confidential & Contributing Editor EDA Weekly
Please visit the http://www.opensparc.net web site for more information
and the full contest rules and regulations.
We attempted to make this contest available to all countries across the
globe, but due to various laws of many countries, we were restricted in
which countries that this contest is offered in.
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