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• UK High Performance Computing Award

  Hello Everyone, The Windows Server HPC team have created a special award for UK Software Design competitors who use the Windows HPC Server in their Software Design solution of the Imagine Cup. Microsoft want to stimulate the thinking of UK students about how HPC can change the world.  We want students to think big, and to use the world’s fastest systems to solve the world’s biggest problems.  That’s what the HPC prize in the Imagine cup’s about. You know how mutli-core is about writing a program that uses more than one cpu?  Well HPC (High Performance Computing) is the next step up: it’s about programming for hundreds or thousands of CPUs.  This is for all the stuff that needs more compute than you can get from a single server.  Think about online gaming, when you have hundreds of people simultaneously modifying a visual database – that needs more power than you can get one a single CPU.  Think about calculating the temperature over 20,000 land sites in the UK and then projecting that forward into the future, one minute at a time, for 500 years.  This all needs heavy duty computing – and that’s HPC.  It’s the A380 of the computing world. To win the HPC prize you don’t need to have a working system – but tell us how your design would scale-out from one CPU to a thousand.  And explain how all that power would help.  The award will be given to the Software Design teams who demonstrate technical competency with HPC,  have a real world need for high performance computing and present the commercial viability of their implementation. HPC is used in lots of places – last year the two winners used HPC for genetic engineering and motorway design.  People in the UK use HPC for everything from theology to thermodynamics, archaeology to aerodynamics, gaming to genetics.  How could you use it? If you’ve got questions please contact your local HPC or SuperComputing Centre.  Or email Michael... Good luck and hope to see you at the finals. Best, Allison Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:11 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, Technology, Student, Software, Microsoft

• Life changing prizes to be won the the Imagine Cup

  Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup, Students The Imagine cup registrations are flooding in and the competition is definitely hotting up. If you need anymore compelling reasons to prompt your students into registering (apart from the chance to win an Xbox 360 Elite) I thought I would share with you the prizes that are on offer which could really make a difference to their live's and give them a great start into their chosen career.   Competition Prize Software Design 2 weeks in Seattle working alongside the Popfly team. A great work experience opportunity to see how Microsoft builds software that the winners can use when they apply for jobs and go into industry Game Development 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft Games Studio in the UK Embedded Development 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft embedded partner IT Challenge A Tranquil PC Windows Home Server Project Hoshimi 2 weeks work experience at a Microsoft Games Studio in the UK Algorithm A top specced desktop PC with Visual Studio 2008 Interface Design A top specced desktop PC with Expression Studio Short Film An HD video camera with tripod and accessories Photography A Digital SLR camera, tripod, extra lens and accessories   As you can see some of the prizes could really make a difference to your students future,so what are you waiting for go to the Imagine Cup Website and find out how you can get involved.   Kate Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 10:30 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, System Administrator, competitions, Academics, Teaching, Student

• Tip: Imagine Cup registrations; if you don't tell us who you are we can't send your prize!

  As more and more students are registering for the Imagine Cup I have noticed that many are not giving us factual names and addresses. We understand a person's reluctance to provide such personal info but there is a very good reason why we need it - last year we had trouble issuing several prizes because we did not know who and where to send them and the students involved thought that our 'You have won a prize' emails were spam. Our privacy policy states that we will only use the personal information provided in relation to this event so please make sure that your students let us know who they are. This can be done by signing in and selecting My Profile. Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup, Students Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:03 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Imagine Cup, Students, Student

• Inspiration Tour

  We’re very excited in the Academic team, we’re just about to launch the “Inspiration Tour” and we can’t wait to go out and meet you all. Ed Dunhill           Ed and Ben will be out on the road during the next six months, so why not take a look at our Inspiration Tour web page to find out more and beat the rush to reserve your tour date now! Ben Coley                                               The aim of the inspiration tour is to bring technology to you and your students, everything from the . NET platform to some of the really cool stuff that’s around at the moment like Silverlight, XNA and Microsoft Embedded technologies. Spaces will fill up fast so please email us if you are interested in securing a date. Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:28 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, XNA, Students, Careers, Training, Technology, Web, Academics, .NET

• And the winners of the Imagine Cup 2007 are...

  Software Design ·         First place: Thailand — Team 3KC Returns/Project LiveBook! Prachaya Phaisanwiphatpong, Vasan Chienmaneetaweesin, Jatupon Sukkasem, Pathompol Saeng-Uraiporn ·         Second place: Korea — Team En#605/Project Finger Code Lim Chan-kyu, Min Kyoung-hoon, Lim Byoung-su, Jeong Ji-hyeon ·         Third place: Jamaica — Team ICAD/Project CADI Imran Allie, Conroy Smith, Ayson Baxter, Damion Mitchell Embedded Development ·         First place: Brazil — Team TriventDreams ED Carlos Eduardo Rodriques, Andrew Wilson Furtado, Ivan Cordeiro Cardim ·         Second place: Romania — Team Aether Alexandru Vranescu, Bogdan Tanasa, Ionel Vuza, Bogdan Holmanu ·         Third place: China — Team SEED Huning Dai, Zhou Xue, Ziqing Ye, Dai Tang Web Development ·         First place: France — Team APB Benjamin Talmard, Thomas Albisser, Pierrick Blons, Sebastien Lam ·         Second place: Ireland — Team Red Dawn Mohammed Al-Tahs, Marouf Azad ·         Third place: China — Team Frontfree Studio-Web Jiasheng Guo, Weining Sha, Xia Xiao, Zhenda Zhao Project Hoshimi (Programming Battle) ·         First place: Argentina — Team OIA Pablo Gauna, Nicolás Rodríguez Vilela ·         Second place: France — Team Arenium Laure Portet, Régis Hanol ·         Third place: Serbia — Team vladan.simov Vladan Simov IT Challenge ·         First place: China — Zhifeng Chen ·         Second place: France — Romain Larmet Third place: Romania — Ilie Cosmin Viorel Algorithm ·         First place: Poland — Przemyslaw Debiak ·         Second place: Ukraine — Roman Koshlyak ·         Third place: Hungary — Szilveszter Szebeni Photography ·         First place: Poland — Team Maraqja Iwona Bielecka, Malgorzata Lopaciuk ·         Second place: Croatia — Team Black and White Aleksandar Kordić, Igor Matoša ·         Third place: Canada — Team Awesome Patrick Struys, Ryan Marr Short Film ·         First place: Poland — Team Skylined Julia Górniewicz, Jacek Barcikowski ·         Second place: Taiwan — Team Circle Chang Hao-Jan, Chang Shu-Wei, Tseng Yen-Chi, Lin Di-Er ·         Third place: Brazil — Team Papa Paçoca Alexandre Nacari, Arthur de Pádua, Felipe Pellisser, Wendel Yokoyama Interface Design ·         First place: Austria — Team OOT Graphics Verena Lugmayr, Claudia Oster ·         Second place: China — Team Frontfree Studio UI Dongjing Yao, Yushi Ma ·         Third place: France — Team Atomnium Manon Gaucher, Flavien Charlon   CONGRATULATIONS to all of the above! Their achievement is incredible and will change their lives, their submissions were inspiring! Read a retrospective about the finals, watch the video blog and watch this space for more news on the competitors and their entries.   Claire Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 9:01 AM from UK Academic Team Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, Imagine Cup, Students, Academics