Master the Mainframe Contest

Congratulations to Pravin Kumar of the Monash University in Victoria, the overall winner of the IBM Australia Master the Mainframe 2012 competition! We hope Pravin enjoys the 11" Apple MacBook Air that he won through his determination and his demonstration of impressive mainframe skills!

To all of this year's participants and winners, we hope you enjoyed the contest and picked up some marketable new skills!

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The contest ran from 10 Sep 2012 to 10 Nov 2012.

Registration is now closed, but check back next year for the chance to Master the Mainframe and win more prizes!

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• Prizes!
  The prizes up for grabs in the 2012 mainframe contest included:
  • An 11" Apple MacBook Air for the highest scoring person to complete Part 3
  • Google Nexus 7s for the first 8 contestants to complete Part 2
  • Travel mugs for the first 100 contestants to complete Part 1
    
    
• Experience!
  Today's mainframes are growing in popularity and require a new generation of mainframe experts. This contest is designed to equip you with basic skills to make you more competitive for jobs in the enterprise computing industry. Participation in the Master the Mainframe contest could give you the edge you need.

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On 28 August 2012, IBM introduced its most powerful, scalable and energy-efficient mainframe server ever, the IBM zEnterprise EC12, the result of over one billion dollars of research and development. This machine sports up to 120 of the world's fastest microprocessors, running at 5.5Ghz. It also has up to 3 terabytes of RAM, plus additional coprocessors for specialized tasks such as running JAVA applications at maximum performance and dealing with heavy database workloads. Cool? Cool.

Check out this writeup in the New York Times or kick back and take a look at the specifications!

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