Alibaba Global
Scheduling
Algorithm
Competition
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Introduction
Alibaba Group along with Alibaba's System Software, Tianchi, and Machine Intelligence technology departments are pleased to sponsor Alibaba's Global Scheduling Algorithm Competition. The competition is open to all global engineers, scholars, students, and enthusiasts interested in developing and studying how to leverage algorithms to solve real-world problems.
Dates to Remember
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Preliminary Rounds
June 7th 2018
The Semi-final
August 15th 2018
Final Demo and Awards
September 2018
About the Task
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As the scale of modern data centers grows, even a 1% resource utilization improvement would lead to significant overall cost savings. In short, resource optimization
drives power savings which reduces our carbon footprint. We sincerely invite you and your team to participate in the competition to achieve the following:
Improve performance
Lower maintenance cost
Reduce customer cost
Ensure environmentally-friendly data centers
Awards
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$4,700
First Prize/One Team
$2,800
Second Prize/Two Teams
$1,200
Third Prize/Three Teams
$300
Team MVP
Judges
The judges will be comprised of academics and Alibaba Group experts to ensure the fairness of the competition.
Yungang Bao
Chinese Academy of Sciences Researcher, Ph.D. Tutor Director of Research Center for ACS
Heng Wu
Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Software Associate Researcher
Hao Lin
Alibaba Principal Engineer
Yu Ding
Alibaba Systems software Senior Staff Engineer Cluster Management Tech Lead
Jingxian Cai
Alibaba Systems software Distinguished Engineer
Kingsum Chow
Alibaba Systems software Principal Engineer
Liping Zhang
Alibaba Systems software Principal Engineer
Qianming Hou
Alibaba Systems software Senior Staff Engineer
Shenghuo Zhu
Alibaba Machine Intelligence Technology Principal Engineer
Sen Yang
Alibaba Machine Intelligence Technology Staff Algorithm Engineer
Mentors
Team mentors will be composed of Alibaba Group's scheduling technology experts.
Qi Lv
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Staff Engineer
Zhen Zhang
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Senior Engineer
Jie Chen
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Senior Engineer
Haiyang Ding
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Senior Engineer
Qiuchen Zhang
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Senior Engineer
Mou Sun
Alibaba Machine Intelligence Technology Optimization Senior Algorithm Engineer
Mengchang Wang
Alibaba Machine Intelligence Technology Optimization Senior Algorithm Engineer
Wei Shi
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Engineer II
Shun Lv
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Engineer II
Xunying Pan
Alibaba Systems software Cluster Management Engineer II
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