COEP students win Microsoft's Imagine Cup, Egypt 09
Jun15 | Anjali From the Director of COEP: Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe:
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COEP students, Shaizeen Aga, Swati Gour and Akshay Galande, won Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Egypt ‘09, the world’s premier student technology competition.
The Imagine Cup is billed as the ‘World’s Premier Student Technology Competition’ and is organised by Microsoft Corp.
A team from Class of ’09 of College of Engineering Pune won the first prize of USD 5,000 (Rs 2,37,249) for their project on Parallel Computing at the Imagine Cup Egypt '09.
The competition is a challenge to youngsters to yoke their technology skills to work at solving some of the world’s toughest problems. This is the seventh year of existence for the Imagine Cup.
The ‘imagine’ in the name comes from Microsoft’s challenge “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today”.
This year, more than 3 lakh students from 100 countries registered to be part of the Imagine Cup 2009.
The Pune-based team named Biollel (the members coined it by mating Computational Biology and Parallel Computing) was placed first in the Parallel Computing section.
The three-member team includes Shaizeen Aga, Swati Gour and Akshay Galande, all of whom have just completed their engineering from College Of
Engineering Pune, this May.
The project, according to the team, reduces the computational time for phylogenetic tree construction by efficiently implementing them in parallel so that we get performance benefits on multi-core platforms.
A phylogenetic (phylum=class) tree is an evolutionary tree. It shows the evolutionary relationships among various biologicial species or other entities with a common ancestor.
Biollel used the Maximum Likelihood (MLE) Algorithm, which is most accurate for the task, but is rarely used because it is so time-consuming.
Instead, scientists use algorithms which work faster, but with less statistical accuracy.
So, to make the MLE algorithm work faster, Biollel used parallel implementation (a form of computing in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously).
They used multi-core platforms to make their code run faster, much like getting your colleagues to chip in when you want to to finish your work fast.
Biollel’s project dealt mainly with the parallel implementation of maximum likelihood method of phylogenetic tree construction algorithm for protein
amino acid sequences using Microsoft's Task Parallel Library.
Phylogenetic Tree construction is crucial in drug design as well as protein structure prediction.
Please see the link for details.
Article in Pune Mirror
Please see the link for more details.
Article in Pune Mirror
COEP students, Shaizeen Aga, Swati Gour and Akshay Galande, won Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Egypt ‘09, the world’s premier student technology competition.
The Imagine Cup is billed as the ‘World’s Premier Student Technology Competition’ and is organised by Microsoft Corp.
A team from Class of ’09 of College of Engineering Pune won the first prize of USD 5,000 (Rs 2,37,249) for their project on Parallel Computing at the Imagine Cup Egypt '09.
The competition is a challenge to youngsters to yoke their technology skills to work at solving some of the world’s toughest problems. This is the seventh year of existence for the Imagine Cup.
The ‘imagine’ in the name comes from Microsoft’s challenge “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today”.
This year, more than 3 lakh students from 100 countries registered to be part of the Imagine Cup 2009.
The Pune-based team named Biollel (the members coined it by mating Computational Biology and Parallel Computing) was placed first in the Parallel Computing section.
The three-member team includes Shaizeen Aga, Swati Gour and Akshay Galande, all of whom have just completed their engineering from College Of
Engineering Pune, this May.
The project, according to the team, reduces the computational time for phylogenetic tree construction by efficiently implementing them in parallel so that we get performance benefits on multi-core platforms.
A phylogenetic (phylum=class) tree is an evolutionary tree. It shows the evolutionary relationships among various biologicial species or other entities with a common ancestor.
Biollel used the Maximum Likelihood (MLE) Algorithm, which is most accurate for the task, but is rarely used because it is so time-consuming.
Instead, scientists use algorithms which work faster, but with less statistical accuracy.
So, to make the MLE algorithm work faster, Biollel used parallel implementation (a form of computing in which many calculations are carried out simultaneously).
They used multi-core platforms to make their code run faster, much like getting your colleagues to chip in when you want to to finish your work fast.
Biollel’s project dealt mainly with the parallel implementation of maximum likelihood method of phylogenetic tree construction algorithm for protein
amino acid sequences using Microsoft's Task Parallel Library.
Phylogenetic Tree construction is crucial in drug design as well as protein structure prediction.
Please see the link for details.
Article in Pune Mirror
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