Launching on August 4, the NASA Tournament Lab at IQSS, in association with the Department of Energy, will challenge interested competitors to find more efficient ways of supplying clean energy to the nation's coastal dwellers.
The NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) is a collaboration among NASA, Harvard Business School, and TopCoder, and housed at IQSS. The Lab uses crowdsourcing to enable a community of more than 600,000 designers, developers and data scientists to create the most innovative, most efficient, and most optimized solutions for specific, real-world challenges faced by NASA researchers.
For this challenge, the Department of Energy has launched the next big contest in their OpenWARP (Open Wave Analysis and Response Program) challenge series on TopCoder. This challenge series is leveraging the crowd to develop a tool that can help bring clean energy to those living near the nation’s coastlines. The OpenWARP code will allow future wave energy converter developers to mesh, run, and post process simulations in a more accessible manner. This module will become part of a DOE open-source software package, WEC-Sim, for the benefit of all wave energy converter designers. The current series of contests, which kicks off this week, involves the development of a graphical user interface (GUI), robust visualization, and post-processing improvements.
For more information, please visit: http://www.topcoder.com/doe/challenge-details/
