SIGMOD 2011 Programming Contest

该拟议项目旨在支持将于 2011 年在希腊举行的 SIGMOD 会议上举行的第三届年度编程竞赛。这笔资金将用于赞助竞赛参与者参加会议的旅费以及在麻省理工学院举办竞赛的人员配备。该竞赛向来自学位授予机构的研究生和本科生团队开放。今年的竞赛任务是构建一个系统，将按键顺序排序的（键，值）对持久存储在闪存盘上。与往年一样，竞赛的目标是：(a) 激发学生对 DBMS 领域的兴趣，(b) 提出研究挑战，(c) 促进可共享开源代码模块的创建，(d) 通过创建一个让学生能够脱颖而出的论坛来促进计算机科学教育，以及 (e) 提供一个让优秀学生无需撰写论文即可获得关注的论坛。此次竞赛将刺激数据库社区开发具有挑战性的研究软件的强大开源实现。此类实现具有智力价值，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。该竞赛将吸引年轻、渴望、热衷于构建数据库社区真实系统的学生。它将强调，除了学术论文之外，社区还重视实际的实现，并有可能带来可供社区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.