About the challenge:

AMD EPYC 4th generation processors are leading the industry in performance and capability for the data center. This hackathon will test your chops to optimize an application to take advantage of AMD's security technologies including Infinity Guard. Infinity Guard provides A hardware foundation for secure encrypted virtualization, secure memory encryption, secure boot, and shadow stack. Teams who can demonstrate a quality application delivery utilizing these core capabilities will put themselves in a position to win.

What to Create:

A new and working software application that integrates AMD Infinity Guard and AMD EPYC 7003 processors or newer.

  • Should be within the Financial Services Industry and demonstrate the use of Hardware Security Modules (HSM) to encrypt/ decrypt transactions coming from a Point-of-Sale device.
  • Must demonstrate the sharing/ deployment of HSM keys in a secured manner across SNP-enabled nodes, mitigating maluses.
  • Must make use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (optional: Secure Memory Encryption, Secure Boot, and Shadow Stack)
  • Must allow for flexibility with different deployment models of the workload. For example, containerized deployment for ease of operations and the ability to drive modern application architecture towards micro-services. 

Check out the Resources page for more details on using these tools and the WWT Developer Cloud.

Requirements

What to Submit

  • A new Secure Encypted Virtualized financial industry application that integrates AMD Infinity Guard and AMD EPYC 7003 Processor (or newer)
  • URL to a functional demo app OR URL to code repository (public or private) 
  • Text description that explains the features and functionality of your app as well as how AMD Infinity Guard was used 
  • Less than 3-minute demonstration video of your working application

See Official Rules for full details.

 

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Prizes

$5,500 in prizes
1st Place
1 winner

• $3,000 USD
• Guest appearance on the AMD Tech Talk Podcast and on the TechArena podcast
• Featured in one AMD blog post, one TechArena blog post, and one blog post from Sally Eaves
• Featured in social posts from all Judges delivered in December 2023

2nd Place
1 winner

• $1,500 USD
• Guest appearance on the AMD Tech Talk Podcast
• Featured in one blog post from AMD, one blog post from the TechArena and one blog post from Sally Eaves
• Featured in social posts from all Judges delivered in December 2023

3rd Place
1 winner

• $1,000 USD
• Guest appearance on the AMD Tech Talk Podcast
• Featured in social posts from all Judges delivered in December 2023.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Allyson Klein

Allyson Klein
Founder and Principal of the TechArena

Sally Eaves

Sally Eaves
CEO, Tomorrow's Tech Today

Jim Greene

Jim Greene
Director of Server Competitive Messaging/Marketing at AMD

Judging Criteria

  • Technological Implementation
    Does the interaction with AMD Infinity Guard demonstrate quality software development?
  • Design
    Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out?
  • Potential Impact
    How big of an impact could the project have to the AMD Community?
  • Quality of the Idea
    How creative and unique is the project?

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