Document provided by River Lin (IBM Taiwan)

1. 2018 China
CAPI Contest
2019 Feb 25th in Tokyo Meetup
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2. 1. 27 teams from 17 universities enrolled. Many of them are from
national research lab, and has good FPGA accelerator projects in
hands already.
2. Kicked off on July 6th.
3. OPF and OpenCAPI Consortium posted announcement to the website.
4. IPS, OPF and IBM fund together , Nallatech, Mellanox, Semptian, Xilinx
all support CAPI2.0 cards and Vivado license for the contest.
5. 10 Winners shortlist for final phase announced on Aug 27th.
6. On line development environment setup in IBM CSC (IPS rent it). 3 Dubai
servers with 6 CAPI card online. Each participant team will have one
independent docker container to separate their development environment.
7. OpenCAPI contest Final is on Dec 11th, Beijing (One day before
Beijing OPF summit).
8. 10 teams have confirmed to attend. Award ceremony occur on Dec
12th OpenPOWER summit.
9. Total 9 accelerator prototypes , 7 able to run on OpenPOWER
systems. Top 3 were selected out.
2018 China CAPI contest

3. Top 3 Winner shortlist
Rank Universities Team name Project Name
1 Fudan University Computing
Accelerator design of WebP image compression based on
OpenCAPI
2 Fudan University Fudan VIP 1080p@30fps H.265/HEVC Video Encoder
3
Shenzhen
University, Cai Dabang
Heterogeneous Accelerator of User Click Rate Prediction
Algorithm on FPGA with CAPI Interface
Xi 'an jiaotong
university
Dream in Chip and Silicon
Engineer
Dynamic Reconfigurable Convolution Neural Network
Accelerator Design based on Heterogeneous Computing
Harbin Institute of
Technology first team in 720
Design and Implementation of Security Certification Protocol
for Ocean IOT Based on OpenPOWER
Zhejiang University ZJU_SNN Design of Pulse Neural Network Accelerator
Zhejiang University ZJU Data Chip
Heterogeneous Acceleration Technology for Block Chain
Voting System
Xi'an Jiaotong
University Ara of Core
OpenCAPI Based Prime Domain SM2 Cipher Algorithm
Acceleration
Peking University
Peking University Super
Computing Team
High Concurrency Bcrypt Encryption Based on FPGA
Hardware Acceleration
Huazhong
University of
Science and
Technology ACGTN Gene Sequencing Data Compression Algorithm

5. Backups
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6. Super Computer 2018 Top 1 & 2 are OpenPOWER POWER9
https://www.top500.org/list/2018/11/?page=1