CFP for Grid Wars III Challenge and ClusterWorld Early Bird Deadline Ends

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:03:25 CST

Engineered Intelligence, HP, and ClusterWorld Conference & Expo invite
you to participate in Grid Wars III: Scientific Computing Challenge,
The Battle for Processors. The Grid Wars III championship event will
be held LIVE on April 8th, 2004 from 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. PST at the
premier conference for cluster computing, the ClusterWorld Conference
& Expo. Grand Prize winners will receive an HP LC Series Cluster in a
14U rack.

You must be registered for a free expo pass or higher to attend the
championship event. Please see the Call for Participation below for
details.

Early Bird Registration end THIS Friday, March 5th!
=========================================================

There are only THREE DAYS LEFT to register for ClusterWorld Conference
& Expo's Early Bird. You MUST use your special Priority Code when
registering online to receive additional discounts! Log onto
www.clusterworldexpo.com, click "REGISTER NOW", and type in Priority
Code – COLA when registering.

If you work in clusters, HPC, Grids or supercomputing, you can't
afford to miss ClusterWorld's intensive tutorials, special events, and
expert presentations in 8 vertical industry tracks: Applications,
Automotive & Aerospace Engineering, Bioinformatics, Digital Content
Creation, Grid, Finance, Petroleum & Geophysical Exploration, and
Systems.

- Students, Associations, Government Labs and University faculty and
staff are eligible for an additional 50% off!
- Groups: Register 4 at Early Bird prices by March 5th and get the 5th
registration free!
- ClusterWorld Attendee Alumni get an additional 20% off Early Birds
prices
- Register online for a Free Expo Pass.
- Volunteer! We award a day pass for each day of service onsite at the
conference.

* Only one discount offer available per registrant.

A Call for Participation from Grid Wars III Computing Challenge
===================================================================
Grid Wars III wants YOU to be a part of its Championship Computing
Challenge!

GRID WARS III
Scientific Computing Challenge, The Battle For Processors
Organized by Engineered Intelligence -- www.engineeredintelligence.com
Sponsored by HP, EI and ClusterWorld Conference & Expo

Grand Prize: HP LC Series Cluster in a 14U rack

What is the Grid Wars Challenge?
================================
The Grid Wars Challenge is a key featured event of the ClusterWorld
Conference & Expo where participating scientists submit CxC battle
programs that will fight against each other for control of parallel
processors. Grid Wars compares competing algorithms using methods such
as dynamic programming, swarm intelligence, genetic algorithms and
similar forms of artificial intelligence concepts. The winner's
concept is published and receives the ClusterWorld Expo GRIDWARS III
Award – this year an HP LC Series Cluster in a 14U rack.

What is Grid Wars?
==================
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.
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. Details about Rules, Technology and Guidelines can
be found at www.gridwars.com.

Grand Prize: the Grid Wars III champion will receive an HP LC Series
High Performance Cluster complete with CxC parallel computing software
and with: One (1) DL380 control node with Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz
Processor, one GB DDR memory, 72 GB disc drive; Four (4) DL140 compute
nodes, each with Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz processor, 1 GB DDR and 80 GB ATA
disc drive; a 10/100 Ethernet with ProCurve 2650 switch; Keyboard,
mouse and monitor; Choice of Linux or Windows OS; Four (4) Licenses
CxC Development Environment and CxC Compiler for Windows, and Four (4)
CxC Run-time Environment licenses for Linux or Windows (depending on
the cluster OS choice)

Grid Wars Qualification Contest Logistics
=========================================
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. 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
================================
The Grid Wars III championship event will be held LIVE on April 8th,
2004 from 10:15 – 11:15 a.m. PST at the premier conference for cluster
computing, the ClusterWorld Conference & Expo. The championship will
feature the "final four" contestants who survive the qualifying
rounds. Qualification rounds will be held the week of March 29th, and
the submission window now open for registering, uploading and
downloading warriors for the competition. The submission window will
close at 5 p.m. PST on March 29th. Logistics and rules are subject to
change - check www.gridwars.com for updates.

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