CMB Resources

• CMB Challenge 2021 prize ceremony (in Norwegian) (15 minutes).
• User Guides
  • CMB getting started video (in Norwegian) 8 minutes, CMB background video (in Norwegian) 12 minutes, CMB local testing (in Norwegian) 12 minutes
  • Simple Getting Started Guide (in English, 2 pages, PDF)
  • Some additional technical information: The ARM cores at Odroid XU3 supports vectorization via NEON, and can be used via GNU vector extensions.
• Publications - Papers
• Climbing Mont Blanc - A Training Site for Energy Efficient Programming on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, Lasse Natvig, Torbjørn Follan, Simen Støa, Sindre Magnussen, Antonio Garcia Guirado, arXiv:1511.02240
• Climbing Mont Blanc – A Case Study in Challenging the Most Eager Students in a Large Programming Class, Lasse Natvig, Magnus Själander, Magnus Lie Hetland, 10.5281/zenodo.3345829
• Publications - Theses
• Security and Measurement Stability in the Climbing Mont Blanc Online Judge, Master thesis NTNU, Ole Kristian Eidem Pedersen, 2019.
• Climbing Mont Blanc - Back-end Improvements, Master thesis NTNU, Fredrik Pe Ingebrigtsen, 2017.
• Improving System Usability of Climbing Mont Blanc - An Online Judge for Energy Efficient Programming, Master thesis NTNU, Sindre Magnussen, 2016.
• Climbing Mont Blanc and Scalability, Master thesis NTNU, Christian Chavez, 2016.
• Experiments towards digital exam with auto-grading in C++ programming courses, Thea Christine Mathisen and Johannes Omberg Lier, 2016.
• Climbing Mont Blanc - A Prototype System for Online Energy Efficiency Based Programming Competitions on ARM Platforms, Master thesis NTNU, Simen Støa and Torbjørn Follan, 2015.
• Presentations
• The CMB idea was first presented in Multi-core HW/SW interplay and energy efficiency — examples and ideas at the HiPEAC3 computing systems week in Gøteborg 24/4-2012.
• Climbing Mont Blanc – A Training Site for Energy Efficient Programming on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, presented at the NII Shonan Meeting Seminar 075 on Putting Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing at the Fingertips of Domain Experts, November 2015.
• Climbing Mont Blanc – A Training Site for Energy Efficient Programming on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, presented at MCC 2015: Eighth Swedish Workshop on Multi-Core Computing, Copenhagen, November 25-26, 2015.
• Climbing Mont Blanc – A Prototype System for Training in Energy Efficient Programming, COLA: Computing on Low-Power Architectures, Ferrara, Italy, 25-26 February, 2016

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