January 13, 2014 – Austin, Texas

The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is holding a parallel programming contest sponsored by BP America on January 13, 2014 and January 17, 2014 from 10 AM CST to 3 PM CST. This two-phase contest will be held both online and in-person at TACC. In the first phase, which will begin at 10 AM CST on January 13 2014, the contestants will be given two serial programs written in C that they will be required to parallelize. They will be expected to develop three parallel versions of the given serial programs using MPI, OpenMP and CUDA in a fixed time period. The top 25 participants will be invited to participate in the second phase of the contest to be held on January 17, 2014. The second phase will have the same rules and requirements as the first phase. The parallel programs will be judged according to the following three criteria: accuracy of results, performance of the programs, and the time-to-development. The top 10 participants will be recognized for their efforts. For complete detailed information, please visit https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-bp-ppc.