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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:      GRID WARS CHALLENGE 
                             The Battle For Processors
                             Parallel Programming Championship

LOCATION:                    WWW.GRIDWARS.COM

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Organized by Engineered Intelligence Corporation
             www.engineeredintelligence.com
             Announcement Date 11/18/2002
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What is Grid Wars?
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In Grid Wars competing battle programs fight for control of parallel
processors. The basis for Grid Wars is a two-dimensional grid of fully
functional virtual parallel processors.  Each processor is connected to its
eight surrounding neighbors and all processors run concurrently. In the
beginning, competitors' battle programs (written in the parallel programming
language CxC) are each placed on one randomly-selected processor in the
grid. Based on simple rules for winning "battles" for control of the
processors, each battle program can spread across the grid onto an
increasing number of processors.  Each occupied processor runs the battle
program in parallel. Every time a competing program takes over a new
processor, its power increases.  When encountering an enemy, battle programs
fight against each other to finally take over the opponent's processor. The
program that conquers all processors in the grid is the winner of the round.
GRID WARS participants develop their battle programs under Windows and the
championship will take place on a LINUX-based cluster system.

What is the Grid Wars Challenge?
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The Grid Wars Challenge is a parallel programming contest 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 about Rules, Technology and Guidelines can be found at
www.gridwars.com

Grid Wars Qualification Contest Logistics
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The downloadable Grid Wars Challenge Kit includes a 30-day trial license of
the CxC Compiler that allows you to create your battle programs. After 30
days the CxC Compiler license expires and you can submit your warriors. If
you would like to continue using the CxC Compiler you can purchase a full
license at a special promotional price for a limited time. See the Grid Wars
Web Site for details.
�        Event location and submission: www.gridwars.com
�        Registration and software download runs from: 12/14/2002 -
01/31/2003
�        Online submission time window: 01/14/2003 - 02/14/2003
�        Qualification Event Dates:  02/17/2003 - 02/22/2003 - 2-4 pm
Pacific Standard Time each day.  (Times and dates are subject to adjustments
depending on the number of submissions, updates will be posted on the web
site listed above.)
Each registered contestant may submit a maximum of ten CxC battle programs.
A CxC battle program has to be in the form of the imported sub-program
(warrior) as provided in examples in the Grid Wars Challenge Kit and must
comply with the technical parameters specified in the Grid Wars Technology
section.

Grid Wars Championship Logistics
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�        Event location and submission: www.gridwars.com
�        Qualified contestants are the finalists of the Grid Wars
Qualification Contests
�        Championship Event Dates:  02/24/2003 - 03/01/2003- 2-4 pm Pacific
Standard Time, each day. (Times and dates are subject to adjustments
depending on the number of submissions, updates will be posted on the web
site listed above.)

Logistics and rules are subject to change - check www.gridwars.com for
updates.