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CloudContest: Automated Contest Management Solution

Explore CloudContest, a self-hosted contest management system that automatically scales for any contest size with easy setup, aiming to simplify the technical side of running competitions. Enjoy features like dedicated machines, custom subdomain, and static scoreboard. Check out the demo at cloudcontest.org.

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CloudContest: Automated Contest Management Solution

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  1. Hosted DOMjudge Keith Johnson kj@ubergeek42.com

  2. Who am I? • Systems Administrator @Florida Tech • 5 years • Chief of Operations - USA Southeast Region • 5 years • DOMjudgeDeveloper • 3 years

  3. What’s this about? • https://cloudcontest.org • DOMjudge in “the cloud” • Automatically scales for basically any size contest • Simple setup

  4. Why make this? • DOMjudge seems to be the most popular self-hosted CCS • Used by many regions(NWERC, SER USA, SOCAL, etc) • DOMjudge can be somewhat tricky to install if you aren’t a Linux person • Documentation is very good though • Overall Goal • Make the technical side of running a contest as easy as possible

  5. Why is this great? • Create contest in just a few clicks • Your own dedicated cluster of machines • Automatic scaling and redundancy • Custom subdomain • http://<your_contest_name>.cloudcontest.org • Permanent static scoreboard • Full database dump for download after the contest

  6. How is this different?

  7. Virtual Machines for Judgehosts? • Admittedly it’s not ideal • Support bringing your own: • Easy to point your own judgehosts at our hosted instance • Coming soon • USB bootable judgehostimage • Just plug in, boot, and go

  8. Demo • Hopefully the internet in here works! https://cloudcontest.org/ http://clidemo.cloudcontest.org

  9. Other Tangentially Related Work • USB Bootable Contestant Environment • Fully customizable Linux environment tailed for programming competitions • http://icpc-environment.github.io/ • Open Source • Consistent team environment • No modifications to the computer necessary, as long as they can boot from USB • Used by the USA SER. • Contact me kj@ubergeek42.com for details

  10. Questions/Comments/References? Email/Google Hangouts: kj@ubergeek42.com https://cloudcontest.org http://clidemo.cloudcontest.org - Demo DOMjudge instance http://domjudge.org - DOMjudge website

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