IBM has announced the start of the competition under the “IBM Ph. D. Fellowship Awards Program. IBM Grants for PhD Students” for the 2010–2011 academic year. The “IBM Ph. D. Fellowship Award” program is an annual international competition that encourages talented PhD students conducting research in areas that are …

Colleagues from Moscow are sending good news.

“Kaspersky Lab” reminds you that applications are still being accepted for participation in the innovation project support program. Students, graduate students, young scientists, instructors at higher education institutions, professors, and research staff can bring their ideas to life this year. The grant amount …

Another contest from Intel. This time you don’t have to program anything. The contest is called “Explain It on Your Fingers 2.0”. The task of the contest is to give simple definitions for various terms in parallel programming. For example, what are SIMD and MIMD? Don’t try …

Yesterday Intel launched another contest in parallel programming and optimization: “Parallel Races: the ‘π’ formula.” The gist of the contest: develop a scalable implementation of a generator for the digits of π. You need to find as many digits after the decimal point as possible in 60 seconds.

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Since April, another Intel parallel programming contest has been under way. This year participants are invited to solve 12 problems in two stages. The first stage began on April 6 and will end on July 3, and the second stage will begin on August 17 and end on November 13 …