SIGMOD 2011 Programming Contest

这个提议的项目是为了支持在希腊SIGMOD 2011会议上举行的第三届年度编程竞赛。这笔资金用于赞助比赛参与者参加会议的旅行，以及在麻省理工学院举办比赛的人员配备。该竞赛面向学位授予机构的研究生和本科生团队开放。今年的比赛任务是建立一个系统，将（键，值）对按键顺序存储在闪存盘上。与往年一样，比赛的目标是：(a)激发学生对DBMS领域的兴趣，(b)提出研究挑战，(c)促进创建可共享的开放源代码模块，(d)通过创建一个学生可以脱颖而出的论坛来促进计算机科学教育，以及(e)提供一个论坛，让优秀的学生无需写论文就能引起注意。该竞赛将激励数据库社区开发具有挑战性的研究软件的健壮的开源实现。这样的实现具有智力上的优点，因为它们提供了一个基础，其他研究人员可以在此基础上构建工具，学生可以学习其他人如何构建大型数据管理系统。这个竞赛将吸引年轻的、渴望的、对构建真正的数据库系统充满热情的学生。它将强调，除了学术论文之外，社区还重视实际的实现，并有可能导致社区以外的研究人员使用的开源软件。为了促进代表性不足群体的参与，将特别鼓励这些群体的参与者。

This proposed project is to support the third annual programming contest to be held at SIGMOD 2011 conference in Greece. The funding is to sponsor travel for the contest participants to the conference and staffing for running the contest at MIT. The contest is open to graduate and undergraduate teams from degree-granting institutions. This year's contest task is to build a system that stores (key, value) pairs sorted in key order, durably on a Flash disk. As with previous years, the goals of the contest are to: (a) stimulate student interest in the DBMS field, (b) present a research challenge, (c) foster the creation of sharable open source code modules, (d) foster Computer Science education by creating a forum where students can excel, and (e) present a forum where excellent students can get noticed without writing papers. This contest will stimulate the database community to develop robust open source implementations of challenging research software. Such implementations have intellectual merit in that they provide a base upon which other researchers can build tools and students can learn how others have architected large data management systems. The contest will attract young, eager, students with enthusiasm for building real systems to the database community. It will emphasize that the community values real implementations in addition to academic papers, and will potentially lead to open source software that will be used by researchers outside of the community. To promote participation from under-represented groups, participants from such groups will be especially encouraged.