This contest has been closed. Thank you very much for applying.
Contest Results
To all of you who have entered the contest
Daisuke Furihata
SQUID Rack Design Contest Jury Chairperson
Osaka University Cybermedia Center, Deputy Director, Professor
Thank you very much for your application for the contest led by the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University. We are deeply moved by 59 entries for the contest, which is far beyond our expectations.
All the submitted works had excellent designs and concepts, and all of them were things that we wanted to adopt as "the face of SQUID system". In fact, the selection of Best Design Award, Good Design Award, Honorable mention in the rack design contest was strictly blind judged by 20 members of the Osaka University Cybermedia Center and a judging committee composed of sponsors, but the selection was extremely difficult and took a long time. We sincerely apologize for the late announcement of the results as a result.
We received many excellent works, and thanks to the kindness of supporting companies, we have decided to select 10 works in total. We selected 1 Best Design Award, 1 Good Design Award, and 8 Honorable mentions which was originally planned 3. The results will be announced below.
Thanks to all of you those who have participated in the SQUID Rack Design Contest, SQUID, a supercomputer, which is created by academics, industry, and citizens will be completed.
We are certain that SQUID of this center will become a supercomputer loved not only by researchers and engineers in industry and academia, but also by many people.
Lastly, I would like to express my appreciation to all of you on behalf of the judges of the SQUID Rack Design Contest and the faculty and staff of the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University.
最優秀賞
宮本 要子 様
優秀賞
Smito（飯田 澄人）様
審査員特別賞
宮﨑 信行 様
太田 裕人 様
斉藤 豊 様
Doro（北野雄万）様
野口 真喜 様
北村 友莉 様
SKY STAMP 様
Atelier Madoka 様
Daisuke Furihata
SQUID Rack Design Contest Jury Chairperson
Osaka University Cybermedia Center, Deputy Director, Professor
Thank you very much for your application for the contest led by the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University. We are deeply moved by 59 entries for the contest, which is far beyond our expectations.
All the submitted works had excellent designs and concepts, and all of them were things that we wanted to adopt as "the face of SQUID system". In fact, the selection of Best Design Award, Good Design Award, Honorable mention in the rack design contest was strictly blind judged by 20 members of the Osaka University Cybermedia Center and a judging committee composed of sponsors, but the selection was extremely difficult and took a long time. We sincerely apologize for the late announcement of the results as a result.
We received many excellent works, and thanks to the kindness of supporting companies, we have decided to select 10 works in total. We selected 1 Best Design Award, 1 Good Design Award, and 8 Honorable mentions which was originally planned 3. The results will be announced below.
Thanks to all of you those who have participated in the SQUID Rack Design Contest, SQUID, a supercomputer, which is created by academics, industry, and citizens will be completed.
We are certain that SQUID of this center will become a supercomputer loved not only by researchers and engineers in industry and academia, but also by many people.
Lastly, I would like to express my appreciation to all of you on behalf of the judges of the SQUID Rack Design Contest and the faculty and staff of the Cybermedia Center, Osaka University.
宮本 要子 様
優秀賞
Smito（飯田 澄人）様
審査員特別賞
宮﨑 信行 様
太田 裕人 様
斉藤 豊 様
Doro（北野雄万）様
野口 真喜 様
北村 友莉 様
SKY STAMP 様
Atelier Madoka 様
Smito（飯田 澄人）様
宮﨑 信行 様
太田 裕人 様
斉藤 豊 様
Doro（北野雄万）様
野口 真喜 様
北村 友莉 様
SKY STAMP 様
Atelier Madoka 様
Application Requirements
Why don't you draw your design on the canvas on our supercomputer system ?
Cybermedia Center Osaka University will start the computing service of SQUID (Supercomputer for Quest to Unsolved Interdisciplinary Datascience) from May 2021. The supercomputer system is expected to be utilized by researchers and engineers in academia and industry.
As one of celebration events, we publicly call for the rack design of SQUID to be "the face of SQUID system".
The adopted rack designed will be put into the series of computing racks (1,950mm x 3,600mm) on the IT core building, our data center facility. Also, it will be widely used for the advertisement of the system through our project web page, advertisement materials and so on.
Deadline
Prize
Good Design Award (x 1) - VISA gift card (
Honorable mention (x 3) - VISA gift card (30,000 JPY), Certification of the award
What we call for.
"Supercomputer"
"squid"
"Beloved From Everybody"
"Cutting-edge Scientific Research"
"Computer Simulation"
"AI (Artificial Intelligence)"
"SQUID" Computing racks.
2D diagram
"SQUID" Computing racks.
Image of computing racks whether the design is put
Past case (rack design for supercomputer "OCTOPUS", 2017)
What to be submitted
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Size: heign 195 mm, width 360 mm (one-hundredth of the rack size)
File format: ".jpeg" or ".pdf" or ".ai"
Color mode: CMYK
Resolution: not lower than 1,000 dpi
Concept explanation sheet
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Please describe your concept behind your rack design
How to submit
* Limit one item per one people
Qualification
Participation fee
Reviewer
Notification of result
Copyright
Host
Co-Host
Cooperation
Cloudian, Inc.
DataDirect Networks Japan, Inc.
Microsoft Japan
NVIDIA Corporation
Oracle Corporation Japan
Secretariat
Submission and Inquiry
Osaka University Cybermedia Center
Information and Communications Technology Services Infrastructure Division
