Computer Programming — Mozy Deathmatch
There were two online elimination rounds yesterday with ten challenges to be completed within strict time limits. Most had to be done within ten minutes. Then the competitors who completed all or almost all the challenges were invited to a live round in American Fork.
There were eight of us left at American Fork at 4:00pm for the final round. The challenge was to write an extremely high-throughput internet server from scratch in ninety minutes. Unless you’ve done it before, that is almost impossible. But we did get several entries which came close to the theshold of processing ten thousand simultaneous connections.
Since none of us quite crossed the line, however, we agreed to split the prize money and look forward to another contest next year.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
That tourney was a blast. It was nice that everyone walked away with something in the end, even though it wasn’t part of the plan. Maybe next year they’ll have prizes for 2nd and 3rd, as it seems unlikely there will be another 8-way tie.
Hope to see you in the finals again next year.
Jon
November 7th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
Jon, you are an iron man to have done the challenges in PHP. I just can’t even imagine it. Hope to see you again, too.
November 8th, 2006 at 11:24 am
So who were the 8 finalists?
November 8th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
“They are Brian Watkins of Salt Lake City; Bryan Worthen, an employee at the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCII); Jon Jensen, Salt Lake City; Brian Palmer, Salt Lake City; U. faculty member Peter Jensen; McKay Davis (SCII); Michael Callahan (SCII); and Ian Robertson of Overstock.com.”
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_4614537
November 9th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Check out that list of finalists. Three Brians out of eight. Our goal for next year is four Brians.