FORT COLLINS, Colorado, -- Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today announced “GRID WARS”™, a parallel programming challenge where competing programs written in CxC (“C by C”) fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors. With EI’s language for parallel programming, developers are asked to write battle programs and upload them into the on-line GRID WARS™ battlefield, where they compete for prizes and industry recognition. 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. GRID WARS participants develop their battle programs under Windows and the championship will take place on a LINUX-based cluster system. Why GRID WARS? GRID WARS was created to amplify interest and enthusiasm in parallel programming and cluster computing. The participating battle programs are written in the parallel programming language CxC (“C by C”), which was designed to simplify the modeling and simulation of a large number of interdependent elements, their parallel dynamics and interactions. CxC is multi-platform and allows for the creation of parallel applications on a laptop or PC. Supercomputing performance is achieved by running the very same executable on hundreds of low-cost processors on a compute cluster. CxC allows easy prototyping and development of parallel algorithms and also combines simple, deadlock-free syntax and semantics with the most powerful parallel programming paradigm. CxC programs are easier to develop and are faster in performance than equivalent message passing or shared-memory programs. What is the GRID WARS Challenge? The GRID WARS Challenge is a parallel programming challenge where participating developers submit CxC battle programs that will fight against each other for control of parallel processors. The challenge consists of an initial qualification contest, which is a series of many-against-many gladiator-type group battles, and a final championship tournament where qualified programs enter a series of one-on-one battles. The winning programmers of the tournament will receive GRID WARS Challenge prizes. Details and further information about rules and conditions for the qualification event and the championship can be found at www.gridwars.com.