CCS Enhancements

The following are PC² enhancements to the CCS Standard.

To produce these yaml files use the PC² Report Export Contest YAML files

contest.yaml file

The following are additions to the CCS Standard contest.yaml file.

Sites Section

The sites section defines all fields for each pc2 server/site

sites:
 - number: 1
     name: Site 1
       IP: 130.86.67.202
     port: 50002
 password: siteone

 - number: 2
     name: Site 2
       IP: 130.86.67.201
     port: 50002

number

site number

IP

site host or IP

port

port for server to listen on

password

if not present, then the default Joe password will be created. Ex. login: site2 password site2

Accounts Section

The accounts section defines team accounts, it has equivalent functionality to the Generate Accounts feature.

accounts:
 - account: TEAM
     site: 1
    count: 10
 
 - account: TEAM
     site: 2
    count: 10

- account: JUDGE
     site: 4
    count: 20

 - account: SCOREBOARD
     site: 4
    count: 1

Auto Judge

Automated Judging settings.

auto-judging:
  - account: JUDGE
     site: 1
     number: 2
     letters: A
     enabled: yes

  - account: JUDGE
     number: 4,5,6
     letters: B,C,D

  - account: JUDGE
     site: 2
     number: all
     letters: B,C,D

  - account: JUDGE
     site: 1
     number: 1,3
     letters: F
     enabled: no

site

the site number, default 1

number

the account number(s), use "all" to select all judges.

letters

the letter(s) for the problems to auto judge. Used "all" to select all problems.

enabled

whether auto judging is turned On, default yes

Minimum values are:

auto-judging:
  - account: JUDGE
     number: 7
     letters: E

Timeout

The run-time execution time limit for all problems can be specified with the timeout key. A time limit can be overridden if a timeout is specified in the problem.yaml file.

# set run time limit for all problems to 20 seconds
timeout: 20

problem.yaml file

Problem Name

In the CCS the Problem name (full name) is in the LaTex problem.

In PC^2 the problem name is added as a key/value pair name in the problem.yaml file. For example:

name: A - Good or Bad?

Limits Section

For each problem a Run Time Limit can be specified in the limits section

# use 15 seconds for this problem definition
limits: 
   timeout: 15

Input Section

PC² has the option for a team solution (Run) to send data to the team's stdin or the team solution reads from file.

input: 
  readFromSTDIN: false

readFromSTDIN

team solution reads from stdin, default is true

pc2submit script

Additional command and command line options can be used, they are:

1. --help lists options and command line syntax
2. --check check parameters, list filename, problem and language, do not submit.
3. --list list contest problem and languages
4. --listruns list run info for the user

See Also

• CCS Standard
• YAML Official site YAML file format description