Special Features:
GRID WARS' VICTORS
EMERGE
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) announced the winners of its "GRID
WARS" Spring 2003 parallel programming challenge in which competing programs
written in CxC ("C by C") fought for survival of the fittest in a grid of
processors. Scott Balaban of Cleveland, Ohio, was the grand champion,
recognized as the top parallel programmer, and he receives an IPAQ Pocket PC
from sponsor HP.
The first GRID WARS Championship took place in February 2003 on an HP Intel
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.
"Our first GRID WARS challenge was a great success," said Matt Oberdorfer,
President and CEO of EI. "197 warriors were submitted by parallel programmers
from all over the world. The first and second place winners, Scott Balaban
and John Ours, are from Cleveland, Ohio, while third place went to Robert
Macrae of London, England. We are especially pleased to have HP sponsor this
event, providing prizes for the winners and the computing platform for the
contest. We're looking forward to the next iteration of Grid Wars, taking
place this summer. We are taking suggestions now on www.gridwars.com, and new
rules will be announced in early April."
The second place winner, John Ours, receives an HP PhotoSmart digital
camera
while third-place finisher Macrae receives an HP All-in-one printer. "HP is
happy to sponsor 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." said Dave McDonnell, Americas Marketing
Manager for HP's High Performance Technical Computing business.. "HP's pursuit
of cluster-based computing is an extension of its firm belief in the promising
future of the IPF clusters as a superior solution for scientific computing
environments. HP's partnership with EI brings these solutions using CxC to a
broad R&D community in need of new approaches for parallel computing."
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 www.gridwars.com to
easily build battle programs and compete. The site also contains details and
further information about rules and conditions for the next GRID WARS
event.
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