Bay Area LabVIEW User Group 2013 Coding Challenge Announcement

[Dmitry]

To all Bay Area LabVIEW Developers and Enthusiasts – the 2013 Coding Challenge has been announced on the BALUG February 19 Meeting

Problem Statement

1. The Challenge: Provide a low latency/small memory footprint solution to access records in a very large Data Set (i.e. a Lookup Table). Contestants  are provided with:

• 1D array of strings (unique Record Keys)
• 1D array of record numbers in the Data Set (same size and order as Record Keys)
• You need to implement 3 Vis to
  • Build the Lookup Table (Create)
  • Search for a Record Number using Record Key value (Search)
  • Destroy the Lookup Table (Destroy)
• Winner: a solution providing minimal search times and data memory footprint on a large set of random key searches.
• Time for Creating/Destroying the Lookup Table is ignored in determining the winner

2. The Grand Challenge: Same as above, but besides Search requests, a solution has to handle

• Insertion of new (Key, Number) pairs. If Key is already in the Lookup Table its Number value is to be replaced with the new Number value.
• Deletion of existing (Key, Number) pairs.
• Test Sequence includes a random mix of Search/Add/Delete requests (33.3% of each).
• Winner: a solution providing minimal processing time and data memory footprint on a random Test Sequence.
• Time for Creating/Destroying the Lookup Table is ignored in determining the winner

For details on scoring, solution development and submission guidelines please download the full Challenge Announcement from https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-26828

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Coding Challenge Prizes

The Grand Challenge Winner:

• NI : a 50% discount on NI Week 2013 Full Conference Registration
• Arktur Technologies : A bottle of 2008 Truchard Cabernet Sauvignon, Carneros, Napa Valley

The Challenge Winner, 2nd and 3d place winners in both challenges:

• NI  : NI logo items (no details available at the moment)

Please respond to this thread if you or your company would like to establish a prize for a specific achievement in this Coding Challenge.

Dmitry Sagatelyan
Arktur Technologies LLC