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Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the your-base-all-ours dept.

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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  1. Mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderators, do it! This is the greatest moment of this guy's life and it's all down hill from here...

  2. +5 funny parent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    damnit where are my modpoints? damn you slashcode!

  3. QUESTION ABOUT MODPOINTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just got 5. My karma is 'positive'. Do you get more when your karma is better?

  4. I don't need a GA code to fill up my processor by sb_gorthi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All I got to do is run the goddamn .NET IDE.

    GRRRRRRR!!

  5. slashdotted already by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

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