Award amounts and requirements
The China/India 2010 X10 Innovation Awards will be valued up to US $20,000.
To qualify for these internationally competitive awards, the submitter must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited college or university in China or India that offers Baccalaureate, Master's or Doctoral programs.
Awardees will be required to make the results of their projects (software, courseware, etc.) freely available as open-source, under a license such as the Eclipse Public License.
The X10 Innovation Awards program started in 2009, when eighteen recipients were granted awards. Proposers are strongly encouraged to join this growing community and carry out joint research with worldwide partners.
Proposals requested
Proposals are invited in the following areas:
- Development of concurrent applications and libraries in X10 including, but not limited to, computation on large data-sets (such as data mining, machine learning), irregular search problems (such as SAT problems or large graph problems), data analytics, and Internet of things (IOT).
- Development of curricular material based on X10. Curricular design for concurrency has become a major topic for professors. There is a need for course material that can be taught to first-year students, and also to senior students and beginning graduate students. A major handicap in the development of curricular material has been the choice of a programming language in which to teach parallel programming concepts. X10 and the underlying APGAS model are a potentially attractive framework.
- Development of higher-level languages (such as domain-specific languages with implicit, application-level parallelism) implemented via translation into the X10 tool chain.
- Design and development of a program development, debugging, deployment, monitoring and visualization environments for X10 applications.
How to submit a proposal
Send an email to: awards@us.ibm.com with the subject line "X10 Innovation Award proposal request".
You will receive an e-mail response with a link to a Web site where you will be able to submit your proposal.
Key dates
All deadline times are 11:59 PM, U.S. Eastern Time
- June 7, 2010: Online submission opens.
Email requests for proposal submitted before this date will be rejected. - July 13, 2010: Deadline for sending an email to initiate a proposal.
- July 20, 2010: Deadline for submitting a proposal.
- Late August 2010: Date award winners will be notified by e-mail.
Resources
- X10 programming language
- X10 Day (a series of X10 education presentations for the Innovation Award community)