Grid Wars

[Levada.com]

Sorry, forgot to include the link to this article:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99993922

Rgds

Ingmar

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Levada.com" <info@REDACTED>
To: "Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom" <Marc.Vanwoerkom@REDACTED>;
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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: Grid Wars


> Here is an article from slashdot regarding "Gridwars"
>
> Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge
> Peter_Pork writes "New Scientist has an article about GridWars, a
> challenging new game that runs on large clusters of computers. Programs
> fight each other for supremacy in terms of the number of processors they
> control, and the main point of the contest is to develop better parallel
> algorithms. It seems a nice idea: have fun while you improve the
> state-of-the-art in cluster computing. The result of the last contest was
> somewhat of an upset, since a craftsmanly Russian program defeated a
> sophisticated genetic algorithm from NASA."
>
> Rgds
>
> Ingmar
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marc Ernst Eddy van Woerkom" <Marc.Vanwoerkom@REDACTED>
> To: <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:23 AM
> Subject: Grid Wars
>
>
> > Here is a competition
> >
> >   http://www.gridwars.com
> >
> > that uses/promotes a parallel C like language: CxC
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marc
> >
>