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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
OpenSPARC Contest awards categories and award amounts are as follows:
OpenSPARC Contest categories and award amounts:
- A. Grand Prize: $35,000
- B. First Prizes: ($20,000 each category)
- i.Best University level Lab Project based on OpenSPARC:
- ii. Best University level Computer Architecture and/or VLSI course
- iii. Best Architecture White paper or Application Notes
- iv. Best New Bus Interface creation as a contribution to the OpenSPARC community
- v. Best Demo of an application running on an FPGA
- vi. Best Adaptation of a single-thread application to a multi-thread CMT (Chip Multi Threaded) environment
- 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. The judging panel is composed of the following individuals:
- Fred DeSantis, retired 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
Judging Criteria will be based upon an objective points based system, with the following point distribution. All Entries (regardless of the Category) will be judged by a panel based on the following equally weighted judging criteria.
- A. Originality (10 points)
- B. Usefulness to the OpenSPARC community (10 points)
- C. Robustness of Design Quality (10 points)
- D. Technical merit (10 points)
- E. Innovation (10 points)
As with the other Open Source Community Awards programs, the contest
period will run from January 28th, 2008 until June 30, 2008. All
entries will be judged during the month of July, and in August, 2008
all awards will be distributed.
Read the complete contest rules.
Read the press release, Open Source Communities Announce Participation Details For Sun Sponsored $1Million Innovation Awards
Read Simon Phipp's blog, "How to get a $1m from Sun"
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