In a grassroots fashion, the hack-a-thon gave birth to a unique international community whose members come from academia, DOE labs, and several industries. The overwhelming response from folks was that they completed in one week what would have taken them 3 months to do on their own.
- There was expert instruction and impromptu tutelage from industry experts at IBM, Mercury, and RapidMind.
- No fewer than 4 development toolkits were invoked: RapidMind, Indiana University's CorePy, Mercury's MCF, IBM's SDK.
- Local work began with (and in some cases extended prior efforts) several bioinformatics algorithms (BLAST, HMMER, ClustalW, Smith-Waterman), while other consortium members across the globe began remote development on molecular dynamics code (Gromacs).
- Mesa was re-engineered to utilize Cell BE SPEs, resulting in astonishing 80x acceleration.
- Povray and VTK porting were a success.
- A special purpose kernel built with kprobes and SystemTap support was successfully built by the LANL folks.
- A Cell BE compiler was created for Windows.
- The configuration of several developmental tools, such as Eclipse, remote desktop access, and cross compiling environments were completed.
- Professors and graduate students from CSU and UC, Boulder participated.
- Subversion code repositories have been established for participants' projects.
- All project progress and direction continue to be documented on the Consortium wiki.
