GRID WARS™ INTERACTIVE PARALLEL PROGRAMMING CONTEST FEATURED AT SC2003
Posted by jim gutowski, Monday October 20 2003 @ 05:47PM EDT
October 20, 2003— -- Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today announced a new version of the popular GRID WARS parallel programming challenge, where competing programs written in CxC (“C by C”) fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors, will be held live in EI’s Booth #2019 at the SC2003 Conference in Phoenix, November 18-21. HP and Microsoft are sponsoring “GRID WARS Interactive” and are providing the computing platform and prizes.
In EI’s booth, attendees will select from warriors submitted through http://www.gridwars.com and have their choices loaded into a live GRID WARS Interactive battle, where they will fight for control of virtual parallel processors. Attendees who select winning warriors will be awarded prizes from HP and Microsoft.
Those interested in parallel programming can download the GRID WARS INTERACTIVE challenge kit from www.gridwars.com, starting October 20th, and create warriors to compete in the new event. Prizes will also be awarded to entrants who submit winning warriors. Details available on the web site.
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