AMD Cosponsors 250K Open Architecture Contest
Advanced Micro Devices and Cameron Sinclair, the founder of Architecture for Humanity announced on Friday the first ever Open Architecture Prize at the annual TED Conference in Monterey, California.
According to AMD, the $250,000 prize is to be the largest prize in existence for the field and is expected to attract design teams from around the world. In December, AMD awarded $20,000 prizes to Latin American students in an effort to improve rural computing.
The winning designs will be built as part of the prize and in alignment with the 50×15 Initiative, a program founded by AMD to connect 50 percent of the world’s population to the Internet by 2015.
It brings together architects, designers and community organizers to freely share blueprints, ideas and resources for improvement projects in areas affected by geo-political, environmental or economic hardship.
The Open Architecture Network is hosted on Sun’s Sun Fire servers based on AMD Opteron processors at AMD’s global headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
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