Challenge Overview
The client of this application is DARPA. They have asked TopCoder to build a modern web-portal for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) and especially focused on Computer Science (CS) education. The CS-STEM web-site will be dedicated to middle and high school students in USA and allow them to learn a lot of interesting topics in a user-friendly environment, which at the same time is productive and professional. Users will earn achievements, awards and prizes on the web-site.
We assume CS-STEM portal will be like a new entire TC website, but specially dedicated to attracting and holding the interest of middle-high students (ages of 13...18) in computer science related topics.
A previous contest has been run to setup Liferay in a clustered environment. The current cluster deployment works correctly for most features, but files aren't centralized, and users are forced to login on each server, which is undesirable. This contest will implement user sessions that work across the different servers, as well as a shared file repository for documents and images.
Final Submission Guidelines
Please see the wiki for the full requirements:
http://www.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/CS-Stem+User+Session+System+Assembly