Fort Meade - USNA - Andrews AFB: Name this super-computer and win $500 -

WINNER ANNOUNCED 

Are your creative juices flowing today? 

If so, maybe you would like to participate in the naming contest for a new desktop super-computer prototype developed by Uzi Vishkin and his team of researchers at The University of Maryland, College Park. 

This technology uses uses a circuit board about the size of a license plate on which 64 parallel processors are mounted.  To control those processors, Vishkin and his colleagues in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed the crucial parallel computer organization that allows processors to work together and make programming practical and simple for software developers, at a speed up to 100 times faster than current laptops. (I have no idea what any of this means - but it sounds impressive, doesn't it?)

To learn more about this supercomputer and the researchers who developed it, be sure to read the official press release. 

The winner of this super-computer naming contest will earn a cash prize of $500, as well your place in history for the distinction of naming this advance in computing technology.  Click here for the full contest rules and restrictions. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2007, so you have plenty of time to think about this and come up with a winner. 

Additional Information about Vishkin's Parallel Computing Research:

• http://www.ece.umd.edu/Research/spotlight/comp_eng/vishkin/
• http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin/XMT/spaa07paper.pdf 
• http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin/XMT/spaa07talk.pdf 
• http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/vishkin/XMT/index.shtml        

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