OpenSolaris runs as the conest platform of the 33rd ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Sites in Mainland China

On Oct.11, ACM-ICPC Asia Regional begins its first contest of 2008 at Harbin Engineering University.

About 110 teams(about 500 students) from 73 universities,5 countries/area (China,Russia,Japan,Singapore,Korean) joined this event.

It's our great honour to invite James Hughes (Sun VP,Solaris CTO,Sun Fellow) and Fang Li to attend the opening ceremony.

About ten medias will report this event.

In 2008,ACM-ICPC attracts 3000 teams from 400 universities to compete online in China.

After the online contest,some of them will get the access to on-site contest.

There will be 5 on-site contests in Mainland China, part of the 33rd ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contests.

As technical sponsor of ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest in China, Sun provides OpenSolaris(Netbeans and SunStudio as Dev. IDE) as the contest platform,and on-site technical support.

Professors of ACM-ICPC loves OpenSolaris's new feature,ZFS Snapshot,which helps them to zero the machines between contest phases.

With Sun's support, ACM-ICPC China Official website will be launched recently, it will be running on OpenSolaris(GlassFish+Apache+MySQL).