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The SG@home project aims to harness the spare cycles of Personal Computers (PCs) in homes, schools and other organisations to work on a cause-worthy grand challenge that appeals to Singaporeans. Of the many tasks that need to be undertaken to get this project off the ground, perhaps the most important is the identification of such a grand challenge.

The aim of the SG@home Ideas Competition is to elicit ideas for a grand challenge project that embodies a combination of enticing, educational and cause-worthy factors. Such a project should be computationally massive while at the same time be amenable to being partitioned into many smaller parts so that each component part can be run simultaneously in smaller computing devices, such as a PC. The competition is a channel to tap onto the collective creative talents of our students and the general public to identify suitable challenges. The competition also creates awareness of Grid Computing and promotes it as a technology. The winning idea(s) may be translated into real application(s) that will run using the aggregated computing power of many PCs in homes, schools and other organisations.

SG@home Ideas Competition

The SG@home Ideas Competition ran for 6 weeks from 3 Sep 2004 to 15 Oct 2004. is NOW OPEN! The Results were annuonced at the Prize Presentation Ceremony on 17 Nov 2004. The competition is jointly organised by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), the Educational Technology Division of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the National Grid Office (NGO) and the Singapore Science Centre (SSC).