INDUSTRY

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. The new contest opens this month, with information and downloadable challenge kits available at www.gridwars.com, while the championship will be held live at the 2004 ClusterWorld Conference & Expo. EI has a variation of GRID WARS in their booth this week in Phoenix at the supercomputing conference SC2003. HP and Microsoft are sponsoring “GRID WARS Interactive” and are providing the computing platform and prizes. Grid Wars III will build from this event and once again offer programmers from around the world the chance to prove their parallel programming skills and win prizes and industry recognition. The winner of GRID WARS II – held live at the 2003 ClusterWorld conference - was a Russian student, whose program beat entries received from an international mix of scientists, engineers, researchers and students. “We’re excited to join with EI and present Grid Wars III at ClusterWorld; attendees can join the event and see the championships live at the leading cluster computing conference,” said Bryan Richard, Conference Director for ClusterWorld. “Grid Wars shows the power of cluster computing in a fun and interactive way, and anyone interested in parallel computing can participate.” The four-day ClusterWorld Conference and Expo will be held at the San Jose Convention Center beginning April 5th with tutorials. The conference program and exposition will run April 5-8, 2004. The Grid Wars III championship event will be held on the main stage during the conference. “The first two Grid Wars challenges were highly successful, and Grid Wars III at ClusterWorld is a great way to get even more people interested in parallel cluster computing,” explained Matt Oberdorfer, President and CEO of EI. “The audience really enjoyed the close match in the finals at the last ClusterWorld conference, and we expect to get even stronger warriors with this new challenge. With a live competition at the premier cluster computing conference, we can show that parallel computing is available to a wide audience of technical computing users, not just an elite group of experts.”