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FORT COLLINS, Colorado -- Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today 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.