SOFA Awards 2022: get your contributions ready!

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Our annual open-source challenge "SOFA Awards" is open!

Any open contribution is welcome whether it is a new plugin, a pull-request, a video/tutorial or documentation page. Contribute your own way, apply for the prize and join the previous prize winners: @jnbrunet @psomers3 @Camille-K @fredroy @olivier-goury @damienmarchal

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Dear SOFA community,

Our annual open-source challenge is open! Any open contribution is welcome whether it is a new plugin, a pull-request, a video/tutorial or documentation page. Only one constraint: submissions must be open contributions. Ready, steady, code to win the 🎊 SOFA Award 2022 🎊

Apply with any of your contributions to the Awards 2022

➡️ Application form

Take part in the Awards Jury

➡️ by replying in this discussion thread and notifying me @hugtalbot (only allowed if you are not contributing)

Looking forward to counting you among us for our annual community event!

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The SOFA Consortium staff

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📢 Go go go community! Share your contributions to win the SOFA Awards 2022 📢

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Let's congratulate @ScheiklP & @dessteph for being the 2022 Awards winners!
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Organizers' Prize: Memento Memory

Trying to use sofa as a simulation environment for Reinforcement Learning, I discovered a few bugs and memory leaks that would not occur for "normal" usage of SOFA. I would like to present my workflow of finding and fixing them.

• SOFA: #2676, #3095, #3318
• SofaPython3: #301, #304

Public Prize: Linear Solver on GPU

Under @alxbilger 's supervision, Stéphane used the Nvidia toolkit to allow the usage of a GPU on the resolution of linear systems. This new solver keeps the optimizations already available in the previous sparse solvers (precomputed symbolic decomposition, fill-in reducing permutations). This plugin is ready and released.

Get ready

Thank you to the six 2022 candidates, get your contributions ready for 2023!!!