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."

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[Stephen Samuel]

Obviously their webserver isn't running on their high-quality cluster.

I thought that 'a beowulf cluster of these' would do much better than that.