C-DAC SAMHAR COVID19 Hackathon Awards

SAMHAR-COVID19 Hackathon

Innovative Implementable Idea (I3) Award

Participants will not only contribute to this hackathon for Noble Cause, but will also have opportunities to win awards. The Hackathon will be conducted in two rounds:

In Round-1, the top 25 Innovative Implementable Ideas will be selected by an Eminent Jury comprising of eminent scientists and domain experts.

The proposers of these selected ideas will move to Round-2 for proving their Ideas by building a prototype for establishing the Proof of Concept. The proposers are required to demonstrate their prototypes and make presentations to the Eminent Jury during the prescribed period.

In Round-2, the participants will be provided with:

• Compute Infrastructure: Access to PARAM Series of Supercomputing facility established under NSM (PARAM-Shivay, PARAM-Brahma and PARAM-Shrishti including PARAM-Shrestha and PARAM-Sangam) and to the latest NVIDIA Tesla GPU powered systems will be provided through National Knowledge Network (NKN) backbone.
• Datasets: Access to India specific datasets or sample data sets (on request).
• Training: Participants will be provided training on latest HPC-AI tools including C-DAC Tools like: TANGO: Small drug like molecular conformation generation and energy optimization to find right postures of small molecules in the database; HBAT: Big-data Analytics tool to Find hydrogen bonds in the simulation trajectories and water interactions; Parabricks: Genome Sequencing Toolkit; RAPIDS: Machine learning Library; DeepStream SDK:Streaming Analytics Toolkit; and AI GPU libraries from NVIDIA (wherever applicable).
• Mentorship: Mentors from C-DAC, Industry and Research Organization will guide the participants to help achieve optimal results during the course of Hackathon.

Awards

In Round-1, the selected Innovative Implementable Idea (I3) Award entry (irrespective of the number of members in the team) will be rewarded with Cash Award of Rs. 10,000 (Rs. Ten Thousand) each and a 'Certificate of Appreciation'.

In Round-2, the Top 6 Innovative Implementable Idea (I3) Awards will be given away by C-DAC under NSM as described below:

• Outstanding Innovative Implementable Idea (One Award):
  Award will consist of a ‘Citation’ +
  A Cash award of Rs. 2,00,000.00 (Rs. Two Lakhs only) +
  Free 500 Hours* of CPU-GPU Computing Credits along with upto 200TB Storage on PARAM Series of Supercomputing facilities established under NSM and the 100 AI PF PARAM Siddhi-AI Supercomputer connected through NKN;
• Excellent Implementable Idea (Two Awards):
  Award will consist of a ‘Citation’ +
  A Cash award of Rs. 1,00,000.00 (Rs. One Lakhs only) +
  Free 300 Hours* of CPU-GPU Computing Credits along with upto 100TB Storage on PARAM Series of Supercomputing facilities established under NSM and the 100 AI PF PARAM Siddhi-AI Supercomputer connected through NKN;
• Promising Innovative Implementable Idea (Three Awards):
  Award will consist of a ‘Citation’ +
  A Cash award of Rs. 50,000.00 (Rs. Fifty Thousand only) +
  Free 200 Hours* of CPU-GPU Computing Credits along with upto 50TB Storage on PARAM Series of Supercomputing facilities established under NSM and the 100 AI PF PARAM Siddhi-AI Supercomputer connected through NKN;

Terms of Participation and Awards

• Participants can update submissions multiple times till the Registration End date.
• Each entry can be submitted by a Team comprising of minimum 3 and maximum 5 members (Including the Team Lead).
• Participants will have to share the complete work activities with C-DAC. And C-DAC will have right to use the submitted application/solution for SAMHAR-COVID19 programs.
• The Award will be given to the Selected/Winning Entry irrespective of the number of members in the Team (members may choose to distribute the amount among themselves).
• The decision of the Eminent Jury on the I3 Award will be final and binding.
• Award can be for the Team/Company/Institution, as submitted in the Application and cannot be changed later.
• Submissions will be considered void if they are in whole or part ill-eligible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud or late submission.

Timelines

Round-1: 1st - 25th April 11th May 2020

• Launch/Announcement: 1st April 2020
• Application registrations start date: 6th April 2020
• Application registrations close date: 20th April 8th May 2020
• Shortlist of Applications for Round-2: 25th April 11th May 2020

Round-2: 30th April 12th May to 15th 25th May 2020 (Data Sets will be provided on request)

• Computing Resources and Mentors allocation: 30th April 12th May 2020
• CPU-GPU Boot Camp: 1st 12th May, 2020
• Hackathon period: 30th April 12th May to 15th 25th May 2020
• Teams working with mentors: 30th April 12th May - 15th 25th May 2020
• Hackathon Presentations: Teams Demonstrate and Present final projects 16th 26th May to 20th 29th May 2020

Award Winners Announcement: 28th 31st May, 2020 with awards to be given during the 'C-DAC Tech Conclave 2020' in a grand function.

More Info: https://samhar-covid19hackathon.cdac.in/#time-section

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