HP sponsors GRIDWARS Championship - Prizes announced
GridWars
challenge with prizes and systems. In GRIDWARS participating
developers submit CxC battle programs that will fight against each
other for control of parallel processors. The GRID WARS Championship
takes place in February on an HP Intel® Itanium® 2 cluster computing
system running Linux. The battle programs are developed on a cellular
automata under Windows. The HP-sponsored prizes include an iPAQ Pocket
PC, photosmart digital camera, and all-in-one printer. The deadline
for submissions is the February 14th.
More Info: http://www.gridwars.com
GRIDWARS was created by Engineered Intelligence Corporation to amplify
interest and enthusiasm in parallel programming using CxC. The basis
for Grid Wars is a two-dimensional grid of fully functional virtual
parallel processors. Each processor is connected to its eight
surrounding neighbors and all processors run concurrently. In the
beginning, competitors' battle programs (written in the parallel
programming language CxC) are each placed on one randomly-selected
processor in the grid. Based on simple rules for winning "battles" for
control of the processors, each battle program can spread across the
grid onto an increasing number of processors.
Each occupied processor runs the battle program in parallel. Every
time a competing program takes over a new processor, its power
increases. When encountering an enemy, battle programs fight against
each other to finally take over the opponent's processor. The program
that conquers all processors in the grid is the winner of the round.
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
GRID WARS qualification event and the championship. GRID WARS will
also be promoted in HP's booth (#822) at LinuxWorld in New York City,
Jan. 21-24.