PRAGMA Student Hackathon: Topic 1
Resources:
Application
Idea development and hackathon process
Hackathon projects are planned and executed by teams of 2 to 4 students. While the organizers provide topics of interest, the exact ideas for the projects come from you, the participants: rather than being decided in advance by the organizers. All participants will have an opportunity to get yourselves familiar with relevant materials of each topic. Teams and projects emerge by a guided self-organization process on the first day of the hackathon. This process is greatly aided if participants have sifted through ideas and identified potential team-mates in advance. We invite you to post ideas, and offer comments on others’ ideas on the hackathon discussion board (to be announced later). Participation in this process is not required, but is strongly encouraged.
● Topic 1:
o We value the two progressive achievements as follows.
▪ Achievement#1: successfully configure Open vSwitch and GRE tunnel on Rocks frontend
(i.e. the newly created node can be connected to PRAGMA-ENT testbed via a GRE tunnel)
▪ Achievement#2: successfully enable the PRAGMA Cloud scheduler to schedule resources on the newly created PRAGMA-ENT node as desired
(i.e. resources on the newly created PRAGMA-ENT node can be scheduled remotely by the PRAGMA Cloud scheduler)
● Subtask#2.1: successfully install pragma_boot and start a virtual machine locally
● Subtask#2.2: successfully register the newly created PRAGMA-ENT node to the PRAGMA Cloud scheduler and start a virtual machine via the scheduler
o Topic 1 has a total score of 100 points.
o Any team completing Achievement#1 will receive 50 points.
(Partial scores may be assigned according to judgement by experts.)
o Any team completing Achievement#2 will receive 50 points more.
(Partial scores may be assigned according to judgement by experts.)
o At the beginning of the Hackathon, each team working on Topic 1 will receive 3 helping cards.
▪ Along the Hackathon, students may ask for help from our experts with the cost of 1 helping card each time.
▪ Using 1 helping card results in deducting 10 points from the total score of the team
o Completing of Achievement#1, completing of Achievement#2, and the number of helping cards that has been used account for the total score for each team.
Each team with a complete deliverable will receive a certification of accomplishment. In addition, the teams with the highest score in each topic will receive a cash award of 3,000 baht together with a hackathon most powerful contributor certificate. These teams will also present their accomplishments to PRAGMA researchers in the 31st PRAGMA Workshop, held in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday September 9th, 2016.
Application Process