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I want to first thank you all for your participation in the CoolThreads[tm] Prize for Innovation. We've seen some great projects being submitted. After reviewing the various projects on performance, Innovation, and scalability, I am excited to announce the following projects as first round winners of the Contest and will be entered into round two.

- Cool-threads - Jocp
- Cool-threads - stm
- Cool-threads - VZoom
- Weaver

Congratulations!

Sincerely,
CoolThreads Prize for Innovation Team

Welcome to the CoolThreads Prize for Innovation---a challenge to develop groundbreaking applications or improve on existing applications for optimal throughput performance and scaling, using the Sun CoolThreads servers.

Sun Firetm servers with CoolThreadstm technology set a new industry standard for performance, space and energy efficiency: Outperforming the competition with 5x the performance, using 1/5 the energy, in ¼ the space. What's more, existing Solaris OS and SPARC(R) applications will just run - without costly porting or modification. The goal of this contest is to spur innovation and help enable designers to take immediate advantage of the performance optimization available in the breakthrough CoolThreads platform running the the Solaris 10 OS and Java developer tools.

CONTEST UPDATE

On behalf of Sun Microsystems, we would like to thank you for your participation in the CoolThreads Prize for Innovation Contest. We've been seeing some great collaboration on some of these projects, so far. We are looking forward to all the remaining projects to be entered.

Below are some new announcements we want you to know about:

NEW DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED
We recently added new docs to https://www.sun.com/emrkt/trycoolthreads/index.html

The contest you are entering will be judged heavily on delivering throughput performance and scalability on the Sun Fire(TM) T2000 and T1000 servers. With the availability of the Sun Fire T2000 systems through the Try and Buy program, you will now have testing resource in your hands before your submission to verify and improve upon your submission either through coding improvement with actual hand on experiences with the targeted system or by being able to document better the customer or community benefits of your submission. If you have already submitted your project, we are giving you the opportunity to continue to refine your current submission if you choose to do the trial period for the Try & Buy Program.

EXTENDING THE CONTEST END DATE
For this reason, we would like to also announce the extension of the closing of the contest. We have extended the submission deadline by 8 weeks. The new deadline for the first round of submission is now on May 28, 2006.

We look forward to your participation.

Best regards,
Micheline Nijmeh
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

About The Contest

The application must be capable of running effectively on a Sun CoolThreads with Solaris 10 Operating System server and satisfy one of the following minimum requirements: (1) An application compiled through Sun Studio 11, or (2) Run in the Java Enterprise System environment or be a standalone Java application; or (3) Any software which does not require a 3rd party commercial license to run.

There will be two rounds of judging in the Contest. In the First Round of judging, (4) four Finalists will be selected. The Finalists will be provided with testbeds for tuning their applications. The Finalists tuned submissions will then be resubmitted for final judging. Prizes will be awarded to those who submit the best new or improved application making use of the Sun CoolThreads servers as determined by the judges in accordance with these Official Rules [link to pdf rules]

One grand prize will will receive $50,000 (USD) Cash to be awarded to the winner of the second round of judging; (All four Finalists will receive a Basic Sun Fire(TM) T2000 server with 4 Core, 8GB memory, with 90-day warranty, value $8300 each. ALL TAXES, IF ANY, ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNERS. Prize will be awarded in US Dollars. All costs associated with currency exchange are the sole responsibility of the winner.

Read the complete complete and official contest rules here:CoolThreads[tm] Prize for Innovation Contest Rules

Contact information
Contest Logistics & Questions: CoolThreads_Prize@sun.com
Technical Questions: CoolThreads Forum
Questions about code submission projects and java.net: Click here

Submitting your entry

All contest submissions must be submitted within a project on java.net. You must carefully follow these instructions carefully or we will be unable to process your entry.

Step1: Become a member of java.net
Register as a member of java.net. If you are already a member or after registration, proced to step 2.

Step 2: Join the CoolThreads project

Request membership in this project by pressing this button:

Step 3: Join the support forum
Click this link to join the Cool Threads support forum.

Step 4: Submit a project request
To submit a project request, start at this link. The project request form has two pages, in the project name on each page, prefix the name with "cool-threads-" and then your project name. For example: cool-threads-sample.

Step 5: Email the cool threads contest project owner
To streamline the project request, next send an email by pressing this Click here and putting the name of your project in the body of the email.

Step 6: Post your code
You will receive an email that your project has been approved and put into an area that is hidden from other contestents. At this point, you can begin using the CVS to manage your code like any other project at java.net. You can also add team members to the project and change the project home page.

Once your submission is ready, zip the submission and use the "Documents & Files" in your project so that our judges can get your code and documentation.

When the contest is over
After the judging, we will make all the projects public. If you would like, you may delete your project or to continue to manage it as an open source project here at java.net.