SC 2000 Network Challenge
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NetChallenge *Preliminary* Schedule
At-a-Glance
Monday, 06-Nov
  • Network monitoring to be in-place
  • Participants will be asked to nominate path over which their application will run
Tuesday, 07-Nov 9:00a - Meeting at SCinet NOC (t-shirts to be given)
6:00p - 11:30p - Bandwidth measuring (1-hour block)
Wednesday, 08-Nov 2:00p - 4:00p - Judging panels to visit contestants (4 ea) for demos
4:00p - 6:00p - Judges to meet in Convention Center, room D327
Thursday, 09-Nov Prizes to be awarded
(see below)

Each participant will be asked to nominate the paths over which they will run their application;  network monitoring will be in place and will measure bandwidth used over a designated 3-hour period Tuesday noon to Wednesday noon.

Two panels of judges will visit the contestants (4 each) between 2:00p - 4:00p Wednesday afternoon for a demonstration.  Demo schedule can be found here.

Prizes will be awarded (as follows)at the Awards Ceremony on Thursday(some or all of the below, at judge's discretion)*:

  • Most data transferred into and out of the convention center during the 1-hour period by a real application,
  • Highest instantaneous link bandwidth achieved at any time into or out of the convention center during the 1-hour period by a real application [this to prevent the team(s) with access to high-speed external nets getting all the prizes],
  • Highest fraction of available peak bandwidth achieved into and/or out of the convention center during the 1-hour period by a real application
  • Most interesting application.

*Subject to change - please check back for updates!
Last Updated 05-Nov


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