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Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today announced prizes and sponsorship for "GRID WARS"(TM), 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 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 cluster computing system running Linux(R). In GRID WARS, developers write battle programs using EI's language CxC(TM) 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 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.