The solution for our December 14, 2015 challenge will appear after the holiday break in early January. So as to refresh your memory after a three-week hiatus, we will repost the challenge on January 4 and follow with the solution on January 5, 2016. We will attempt to post regularly over the holiday break but posts may turn out to be intermittent. If you come across an interesting...
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Solution for the week of November 30, 2015:   The "Langton's Ant in OpenMP solution zip file" at the bottom of the challenge contains a solution.   http://hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/113
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RELEASE DATE: November 30, 2015   TITLE: Langton's Ant in OpenMP   SUMMARY: Your challenge is to parallelize a model of Langton's Ant using OpenMP.   QUESTION: You are provided with starter code in the "Langton's Ant in OpenMP starter zip file" below. Your challenge is to add OpenMP...
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Solution for the week of November 2, 2015: The "Langton's Ant in C and X11 solution C file" at the bottom of the challenge contains a solution. http://hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/111
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RELEASE DATE: October 19, 2015 SUMMARY: This problem challenges you to write a model of a popular cellular automaton in JavaScript. QUESTION: Langton's Ant is a popular cellular automaton. The Wikipedia page for it provides a decent introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langton%27s_ant . Your challenge is to write a version that uses JavaScript to model...
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In an effort to address some of the most urgent challenges facing Indiana and the world, IU has launched the most ambitious research program in the university’s history. IU will invest at least $300 million over the next five years in a Grand Challenges research program to develop transformative solutions for some of the planet’s most pressing problems. Up to five large-scale research...
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  HPC in the News            SDSC's Comet System Offering Virtual Clusters in Current Research Allocation Submission Period September 15 - October 15, 2015 This is a reminder to those who are submitting a research allocation request in the current submission period. SDSC's Comet system is offering a new...
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Solution for the week of September 7, 2015: The "Diffusion, Limited Aggregation in MPI solution zip file" at the bottom of the challenge contains a solution. http://hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/107
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RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2015 SUMMARY: Your task is to write a program in C using the X11 library based on an existing HTML/CSS/JavaScript program. QUESTION: The existing HTML/CSS/JavaScript program is from a previous challenge problem, "JavaScript Diffusion, Limited Aggregation" ( http://www.hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/105/ ). ...
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Solution for the week of August 10, 2015: The "JavaScript Diffusion, Limited Aggregation solution zip file" at the bottom of the challenge contains a solution. http://hpcuniversity.org/students/weeklyChallenge/105
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