Preliminary information - subject to change.
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Organization
Organizational body
GWDG gGmbH
Burckhardtweg 4
37077 Göttingen
Germany
General representative:
Contact details:
Competition Support:
support-ssc@gwdg.de
Arbitration:
support-ssc@gwdg.de
Competition Language
All documents and communication will be in English language.
Technical Scope
The competition deals with IO-Performance of high performance storage solutions in general. This covers both:
- pure software approaches: for this the organizer of the event will provide a standard hardware setup (c.f. SSC - Systems overview)
- hardware/software approaches: dependent on the availability of sponsors, e.g. storage solution vendors, there maybe additional hardware available to be used exclusively by one team (team sponsor) or by all teams (event sponsor). The sponsors must agree to provide any necessary software license for the period of the competition and support the respective teams or events.
Legal Compliance
The competition will be carried out in compliance to the laws, restrictions and regulations - e.g. GPDR, export control, security regulations - imposed by the legislation of Germany and the European Union.
Teams
This section states the requirements/conditions that apply to the teams applying to the contest
General
- Teams can represent one or multiple organization/school/faculty or sponsors
- Teams can be sponsored by and/or associated to any eligible legal entity
- Team members must be eligible for participation according to laws, restrictions and regulations
- Sponsors/associated organizations must be eligible within the laws, restrictions and regulations
- It is mandatory that for each official meeting organized by SSC, at least one team member of each team is present
- The SSC receives the permission to publish summarized information about the teams and their team members (in the application form, we will indicate public fields explicitly)
Misc
- Teams can withdraw from the competition at any time. At the same time, the access authorizations of all its members established for the purposes of this competition expire.
- A team does not form a legal entity.
- For the first iteration, the max. allowed number of teams will be limited.
- Teams are allowed to cooperate/share know-how at will.
- Sponsors/associated organizations must be eligible within the laws, restrictions and regulations
Rating
For each task, a task-specific score will be defined (for example, runtime, throughput or by functionality) and scaled based on the best score achieved by any team. The overall score is defined as the sum of the individual scores and the overall rank is based on the ranks in each task. The rating criteria will ensure that the different approaches/solutions tested by the teams are rated in a fair transparent way. The final list of tasks and criteria are currently under development and will be updated.
