The Rules
Cloud AI Challenge Terms & Conditions
These rules (and the CodeProject® Terms of Use and the CodeProject Contributors Agreement) govern the The Great Cross-Architecture Challenge (the "Contest") and set out the terms and conditions between CodeProject and its affiliates ("CodeProject"), Intel Corporation and its affiliates (“Intel” or “Sponsor”) (collectively with CodeProject, “us/we”) and each participant ("participant", "or "you"). A submission to this Contest constitutes your acceptance of these Official Contest Rules (the "Rules").
1. How to Enter: CodeProject is administering the Contest on behalf of Sponsor and Prizes (as defined below) will be awarded based on the results of judging all valid entries against the criteria established in these Rules or based on a random number generator for the spot prizes.
The Contest begins on 10 Nov 2020 at 12AM US Eastern time and ends on 22 Feb 2021 at midnight US Eastern Standard Time (“Contest Period”). CodeProject’s clock is the official time for the Contest. All entries must be submitted during this period in order to qualify. Participants must comply with the submission format provided by CodeProject on its website. Submissions must be in the English language.
No purchase is necessary to enter the Contest or to be eligible to win a Prize.
We are not responsible for lost, illegible, incomplete, mutilated or stolen entries; errors appearing within these Rules, in any Contest related advertisements or other materials; or other errors of any kind whether mechanical, human, electronic or otherwise. Entries that are late, illegible, incomplete, unreadable, damaged, delayed, lost, tampered with, incomprehensible, forged, mutilated, misdirected, inaccurate, unintelligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Rules will be disqualified. You must provide all of the requested information to submit a valid entry. Only those who live in jurisdictions in which this Contest is legal may enter. Prizes may be withheld or awarded to another eligible registrant if these Rules are breached. Prizes may not be exactly as shown. A reasonable US dollar equivalent in lieu of the Prize may also be awarded at the sole discretion of CodeProject.
Entries shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry unless clearly indicated otherwise. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.
2. Eligibility: This Contest is open to software development professionals & enthusiasts who are of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence. Residents of Quebec and of the following countries are ineligible to participate due to legal constraints: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria and Brazil. All national and local laws and regulations of the participant’s country of residence apply. Residents of countries under U.S. embargo are not eligible to enter. Employees, officers and representatives (and members of their immediate families and those living in the same household of each) of CodeProject, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, Intel Corporation, the European Organization for Nuclear Research ("CERN"), the Argonne National Laboratory ("Argonne"), and any company involved in the design, execution, production of this Contest ("Contest entities") are ineligible. Intel is committed to compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, policies and ethics rules. Intel seeks no promises or favoritism for itself or any of its affiliates in exchange for any item received through this Contest. By your acceptance, you agree that the Contest does not violate any law, regulation or policy applicable to you. CodeProject reserves the right to verify participant eligibility at any time and all participants may be required to provide verification of eligibility. Void where prohibited.
Grand Prize: CERN openlab Internship: To be eligible for the CERN openlab internship during 2021, you need to meet the following requirements by the time the internship begins:
- Completed three years of full-time education in a bachelor or master degree university program in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics;
- Be a registered student or graduate between May and September of 2020;
- Meet any CERN openlab specific requirements; and
- Be interested in working on advanced IT projects during the internship.
Important exclusion: Those who previously worked at CERN or CERN openlab (as a user, staff member, or student) are not eligible for the internship.
Grand Prize: Chance to work on a oneAPI related project at Argonne for (8 weeks summer 2021): To be eligible for to work on a oneAPI project with Argonne you need to meet the following requirements by the time the placement begins:
- Currently be a US citizen, permanent resident or be eligible to work in the United States (waived for remote work)
- Completed three years of full-time education in a bachelor or master degree university program in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or physics;
- Be a registered student or graduate between May and September of 2020;
- Meet any Argonne specific requirements; and
- Be interested in working on advanced IT projects during the placement.
The Summer working project is sponsored by Intel will be an eight week project in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory. It will include an $8,000 travel stipend (or cash if travel is not possible due to Covid-19).
Important exclusion: Current and previous paid staff at Argonne who worked at Argonne any time prior to the end of this contest are not eligible for this prize.
Note that all trips are subject to travel restrictions that are in place at the time of travel
3. Determination of winners:
Up to $US41,000 in prizes will be awarded, but only a valid entry in compliance with these Rules is eligible to win a Prize.
Entries are limited to 1 entry per person. Duplicate entries and entries with falsified information will be disqualified.
Entries must satisfy the following criteria:
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The code for the entry should be executable and running on DevCloud
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The entry must be posted on DevMesh – we want to know not just what you did… but how you did it!
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If your entry is a CUDA port, you must include a description of your experience moving your CUDA or C++ code to DPC++ (Data Parallel C++)
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If you are creating a new app, you must include a description of your DPC++ development experience (the good, the bad, the ugly, and the fun lessons learned).
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Must demonstrate the use of heterogeneous computing
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Entry code should be hosted on GitHub, GitLab or other publicly accessible source code repository to allow judges to review code.
Entries will be judged based on the following elements:
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Most innovative. Meaning: most imaginative use of heterogeneous computing. The clear application of imagination in the solution
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Most impact on humanity. Does your solution impact health? Food production? Energy? The environment? Education or social good? Technology that enriches our lives.
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Best use of heterogeneous computing. Does your solution clearly take advantage of the opportunities to write code that can seamlessly take advantage of available accelerator hardware?
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Was the application generally a useful application for its target audience
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The general level of coding expertise
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The quality (not quantity) of the explanation of the application and its purpose
In addition, the votes and comments each submission receives on the CodeProject website may be taken into account. Judges decisions are final. You may withdraw your submission at any time by notifying CodeProject. Your right to win a Prize is terminated if a submission is withdrawn.
Winners will be announced on Mar 8, 2021. Winners will be notified by email following selection and may also be announced in the Daily Build newsletter or other sections of CodeProject.com. We shall have no liability for any winner notification that is lost, intercepted or not received by the potential winner for any reason and we are not obligated to leave voice mail, answering machine or other message. Proof of response by a potential winner does not constitute proof of receipt by us.
All winners will be notified via email. If after seven (7) days of the second notification to the winner, no acknowledgement or response is received, the Prize is forfeited, and CodeProject will select another winner.
Each winner acknowledges that, if and to the extent that CodeProject is legally obligated to provide a third party with information about any Prize claimed by a winner, CodeProject shall be entitled to do so.
4. Ownership and Publicity: CodeProject does not claim ownership of your submission to the Contest (please see the “Ownership” section in the CodeProject Contributors Agreement), but by submitting an entry, you grant CodeProject, and Intel, its affiliated companies and necessary sub-licensees a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully assignable and transferable right and license, to edit, adapt, translate, reformat your submission, to post your submission (e.g. publish, display, perform, digitally perform) to do what CodeProject feels it needs to do to manage and update the Site, to make and maintain back-up and archival copies, and to make your submission available to End Users in accordance with these Rules, CodeProject’s Contributors Agreement, and the specific EULA that you select.
By participating in the Contest, you expressly allow CodeProject and Intel, to use and publish, in any medium or format, your name, city and country of residence, voice, statements, video, photographs and other likenesses in connection with any promotion, advertising or publicity without further consideration or notice to you. Any participant’s personal information may be used by CodeProject in order to conduct the Contest. By participating in the Contest, the participant agrees to the use of the participant’s personal information in accordance with CodeProject’s privacy policy, which can be found at http://www.codeproject.com/info/privacy.aspx.
5. Participant Warranties:
By submitting an entry to the Contest, you warrant that your submission:
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is a new article or a new version of an article and has not been published previously on Intel DevMesh;
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does not contain any content that infringes on any third party rights, including Intellectual Property (IP) rights, and that you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to make your submission, including any and all IP rights;
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does not disclose any information which would constitute a violation of any confidentiality obligation;
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does not violate any agreement that you have with any third party; and
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does not contain any viruses, worms, spyware, or other components or instructions that are malicious, deceptive, or designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer or computer system.
6. Prizes:
All prizes below are awarded as consideration of the technical work of the winners, in recognition of personal merit, and to encourage future technological development for the benefit of society as a whole.
As described below, there will be up to $41,000 in Contest prizes (“Prize” or “Prizes”) awarded.
Entries must be of an acceptable quality, fulfil requirement outlines for the article topic as determined solely by CodeProject, and abide by the Terms of this Contest. The total approximate retail value (“ARV”) of all Prizes will not exceed forty one thousand five hundred ($41,000) USD. All applicable federal, state, and local tax laws apply. The value for any prize is based on the ARV at the beginning of the Contest Period. Because the ARV for any Prize may fluctuate, CodeProject has the sole right to determine the value of any Prize, or its cash equivalent, at the time that any prize is awarded.
Substitution or transfer of Prizes is not allowed. In CodeProject’s sole discretion, it may award a substitute prize of equal or greater value. The winner accepts responsibility for all federal, state and local taxes and fees in connection with the Prizes. If you are a potential winner, we may require you to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability/Publicity Release and a W-9 tax form or W-8 BEN tax form within seven (7) business days of notification. In certain countries, such as Canada, a winner may be required to correctly answer a skill testing question before becoming eligible to claim a Prize.
Apart from any Prize that may be awarded as part of the Contest, no compensation (monetary or otherwise) will be paid for your Contest submission. We are not responsible for Contest entries not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions. We are not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by you or any other persons or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest.
The Prize will be shipped to the winner’s residence using standard delivery. CodeProject and Intel are not responsible for a Prize if it is lost, stolen or damaged during or after shipping, and it will not be replaced by CodeProject or Intel.
7. Warranties and Disclaimers: Prizes come with the standard manufacturer warranty only (if applicable), but Prizes are awarded “AS IS”. To the fullest extent allowable by law, CodeProject and Intel specifically disclaim any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the Contest or the Prizes including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.
8. Release of Liability, Issues of Law and Indemnity: By participating in the Contest, all participants release CodeProject and Intel, their affiliates, partners, subsidiaries, officers, directors, agents, employees and all entities associated with the development and execution of this promotion from any and all liability with respect to and in any way arising from participating in this promotion, acceptance or use of a Prize. CodeProject and Intel assume no responsibility for incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or technical error, lost, delayed or garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or failures of any telephone or computer line or network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. If for any reason, in the opinion of CodeProject in its sole discretion, the Contest is not capable of running as originally planned, or if the administration, security, fairness, integrity or the proper conduct of the Contest is corrupted or adversely affected, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond its control, CodeProject reserves its right to cancel, terminate, modify, amend, extend or suspend the Contest including cancelling any method of entry, and select a winner from previously received eligible entries. CodeProject reserves its right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be violating the letter or spirit of the Rules or is otherwise acting in a disruptive manner. CodeProject reserves its right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent of the law for any attempts to deliberately damage the Contest web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest. CodeProject and Intel shall not be held responsible for any errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the Contest including any damage to an entrant's computer equipment, system, software or any combination thereof, as a result of their participation in this Contest or from downloading any material from the Contest website where applicable. All participants agree to fully indemnify and hold harmless CodeProject and Intel from any and all claims by third parties relating to the Contest without limitation.
9. Generally: We may make changes to these Rules at any time without notice to you. Participating in the Contest or accepting a Prize will constitute acceptance of the revised rules. These Rules prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or promotional materials.
All trade names, trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned or displayed in connection with the Contest are the property of their respective owners and may not be used in any manner whatsoever without the express written consent of their respective owners.
If, for reasons beyond CodeProject’s control (including, but not limited to, tampering or computer virus infection), the Contest is not capable of running as originally planned, CodeProject, at its sole discretion reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest, without liability or further notice. We will not be responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, or illicit submissions, or for Internet, computer hardware and software, phone, and other technical errors, omissions malfunctions, and delays. Entries are void if they contain material typographical or other errors. All entrants agree to comply fully with each provision in these Rules. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with this Contest and any person who does not comply with these Rules, will be ineligible for any Prize(s) and may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
For any feedback or questions regarding the Contest or the Prizes, please contact contest@codeproject.com.
10. Winners' List: For a list of Prize winners, please contact contest@codeproject.com with the Subject Line “The Great Cross-Architecture Challenge” by Mar 22, 2021.