POVCOMP 2004: Prizes

Our sponsors kindly made available these fantastic prizes with a total retail value of over US$14,000!

First prize is a computer system worth over $10,000! See below for specs.

Place	Prize
1^st	Appro Dual AMD Opteron™ WH300 Workstation - $10,000 value
2^nd	$2,500 Zazzle Shopping Spree
3^rd	$1,000 Zazzle Shopping Spree
4^th	Zazzle Colossal Poster - $129.95 value
5^th to 10^th	Zazzle Huge Poster - $34.95 value each
11^th to 20^th	Zazzle Large Poster - $19.95 value each
21^st to 25^th	Zazzle Small Poster - $13.95 value each
Special Mentions	Ten 12-month PlanetMirror Premium subscriptions.

First Prize System Specs

The first prize is a stunning Appro 64-bit Opteron workstation featuring:

Two AMD Opteron 250s processors.
Eight gigabytes of registered ECC DDR SDRAM.
One TB (terabyte) of 7200 RPM hard disk storage.
An NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 video card.
One 19" LCD monitor, and
One 17" LCD monitor.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3.
Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse.
DVD/RW combo

This computer is also capable of running Windows XP (either the 32 or 64-bit edition). POV-Ray can run in 64-bit native mode on both Red Hat Linux for the AMD64 and Windows XP for the AMD64, and is capable of performing renders that would be impossible under 32-bit operating systems due to OS memory limitations.

The small print: Prizes are being awarded by the sponsors direct to the winners. POVCOMP management is not involved in disbursement of awarded goods. To be elegible for a prize contestants in POVCOMP 2004 must agree to abide in good faith by the rules and conditions set down upon entry or as subsequently amended. International delivery of prizes will be provided to serviced destinations if the winner lives outside the USA, however duties and taxes are the responsibility of the recipient.