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EI ANNOUNCES PRIZES AND SPONSORSHIP FOR GRID
WARS
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) announced prizes
and sponsorship for
"Grid Wars," the parallel programming challenge in which
competing programs
written in CxC ("C by C") fight for survival of the fittest
in a grid of
processors.
The GRID WARS Championship takes place in
February on an HP Intelv Itanium
2 cluster computing system running Linux.
In GRID WARS, developers write battle programs using EI's language CxC
for
parallel programming and upload them into the on-line GRID WARS
battlefield,
where they compete for prizes and industry recognition. The
HP-sponsored
prizes include an iPAQ Pocket PC, Photosmart digital camera, and
all-in-one
printer. GRID WARS will also be promoted in HP's booth (#822) at
LinuxWorld in
New York City, Jan. 21-24.
"Our vision is to make
supercomputing available to scientists and engineers
who want to focus on
their primary science," said Matt Oberdorfer,
president and CEO of EI. "We are
pleased to partner with HP to introduce a
broader audience to easy parallel
programming. GRID WARS shows the
potential of CxC with HP's computing
platform."
"With the introduction of HP's second generation of
Itanium-based
workstations and servers running Linux in 2002, HP is the
driving force in
a new era of high-performance computing," said Dave
McDonnell, Americas
Marketing Manager, HP Business Critical Systems. "HP is
happy to host GRID
WARS because we share with EI the belief that there is a
growing interest
among scientists and engineers in parallel programming for
Itanium-based
Linux environments."
GRID WARS was created to amplify
interest and enthusiasm in parallel
programming and supercomputing. Those
interested in parallel programming --
including scientists, engineers, and
software developers -- can download the
GRID WARS creation and training
software from the web site at: http://www.gridwars.com , to easily build
battle programs and compete.
The site also contains details and
further information about rules and
conditions for the GRID WARS qualification
event and the championship.
Engineered Intelligence supports its CxC parallel
programming language on
Linux-based HP servers as well as PA-RISC systems
running HP-UX and plans to
support HP AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX
and Itanium 2-based systems
running HP-UX.
About Engineered
Intelligence
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) is the
technological leader in
parallel programming languages for high-performance
computing. As developer
of software that enables a cluster of low-cost
computing resources to
become a virtual single high-performance computing
system, EI solutions
meet the needs of customers in life sciences,
computer-aided engineering,
financial modeling and other industries where high
performance computing is
critical. EI owns all intellectual property and
several patents (pending)
related to this technology. Information about EI can
be found on the Web at:
http://www.engineeredintelligence
.com
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