The competition of CEOI 2014 will be held according to the usual rules of international olympiads in informatics: the contestants will face two contest exams, five hours each, to show their ability do develop efficient algorithms and implement them into error-free software.
The contests will be hosted by the faculty of mathematics and informatics of Jena University, generously offering two lab rooms with PCs plus server infrastructure.
Competition Environment
The hardware of the contestant computers is as follows:
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CPU: Intel Core i7 – 4770 (4×3.4 GHz, 8 MB Cache, Intel HD Grafik 4600)
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Mainboard: Intel DQ87PG (Intel Q87 Chipsatz)
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RAM: 8 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz
- SSD 250 GB / HDD 500 GB
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Monitor: 22“ (1680×1050)
The following software will be provided on the contestant computers:
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Linux distribution: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Gnome Classic;
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web browsers: Firefox;
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editors/IDEs: joe, vim, kate, kwrite, eclipse-cdt, emacs, gedit, nano, scite, codeblocks, geany, kdevelop
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compilers and interpreters: gcc 4.8, g++ 4.8, fpc 2.6, python 2.7.x, ruby 1.9.3
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debuggers: gdb, ddd, valgrind
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documentation for C/C++, STL (like here: http://en.cppreference.com/w/File:html_book_20140208.tar.gz)
As contest system, we will use a variant of CMS, which has previously been used at IOIs 2012 and 2013.