Award amounts and requirements
The 2010 X10 Innovation Awards will be valued in the range of US $10,000 to $30,000.
To qualify for these internationally competitive awards, the submitter must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited college or university 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.
Proposals requested
Proposals are invited in the following areas:
- 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 libraries and concurrent application frameworks in X10, e.g. supporting computation (data mining, machine learning) on large data-sets and irregular search problems (such as SAT problems or large graph problems).
- Development of higher-level languages (such as examoledomain-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, leveraging cloud infrastructure.
Of particular interest are proposals that use X10 for developing cloud 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
- November 5, 2009: Online submission opens.
Email requests for proposal submitted before this date will be rejected. - November 23, 2009: Deadline for sending an email to initiate a proposal.
- November 25, 2009: Deadline for submitting a proposal.
- December 11, 2009 through January 2010: Date award winners will be notified by e-mail.
Proposal format
Proposals of roughly four pages should outline the intent and benefit of the project, background of the principal investigator, any prerequisite software or equipment, and a brief development plan for the software orcourseware to be developed during the course of the project.
The proposal review committee is comprised of the following people from IBM Research:
- Evelyn Duesterwald
- Robert Fuhrer
- Michael Hind
- David Grove
- Tamiya Onodera
- Igor Peshansky
- Vijay Saraswat
- Olivier Tardieu