Thereafter , a parallel Software Championship was held instead ; unlimited hardware is still allowed in the championship proper .
For the 2009 edition , the rules were changed to limit platforms to commodity hardware supporting at most eight cores , thereby excluding supercomputers and large clusters .
A parallel Software Championship was held instead ; unlimited hardware is still allowed in the championship proper .
For the 2009 edition , the rules were changed to limit platforms to commodity hardware supporting at most eight cores , thereby excluding supercomputers and large clusters .