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Enter Warriors In GridWars Interactive
guts writes "Those interested in parallel computing can enter warriors in the new GRID WARS INTERACTIVE contest by downloading the challenge kit from www.gridwars.com. Prizes will be awarded to those who submit the most winning warriors, with the championship held live at Supercomputing SC2003 in Phoenix in November. Details available on the web site." (See this earlier story about Grid Wars, too.)
You know, I bet more people would be interested if their website was not full of crappy flash.
That said, it sounds like lots of fun.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable" - JFK
Cant look at the site without flash. Hope it didn't have any information buried..
Why people do this still i do not understand.
I'd seriously be interested in this product for my wife if it really existed. Someone should take the idea and run with it.
The previous has been a secret message to my comrades.
I've got the craving to compete in code-space. But this Applied Intelligence company with the closed-source CxC compiler behind GridWars isn't going to get my help testing and tuning it.
Seriously, is there somewhere I can write some competitive code in Ruby or Perl or Python or even C for god's sake!!!
I'm currently installing the GridWars software, and have a gripe (other than the Flash gripe that's been echoed here several times -- there should always be a way to navigate a site from a text-based browser!). My gripe is that they default to installing on C:, and they greyed out the [...] button which would allow you to change the installation directory!
Yes, I realize my configuration is non-standard (Windows 2000 was on D:, then I added a bigger drive and reinstalled on K:), but c'mon, there's no reason to force the installation directory in this day and age.
That said, I for one look forward to seeing just how much of an overlord I can become. ;-)
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
its like core wars meets robot battle... sounds very cool, if only i could figure out how to use it. i get errors and/or crashes no matter what I try.
Applied Intelligence admits they need your help to test and tune what they admit is "software still in the works". They don't, however, open up their source to truly get the help of the community. Close it, give away a 30-day trial version, hang a fat price tag on the full version, and then ask the community to help them test and tune it?! I'll pass.
it only exists to sell their CxC programming language/environment. it would be better if they:
1) announced what the prize is
2) allowed you do download an use a full version of the software instead of a 30 day trial.
3) explained the rules better.
i get errors and/or crashes no matter what I try.
If they'd let the community look at the source for their closed-source run-time environment and/or their closed-source CxC compiler, we could help them fix their bugs. Unfortunately, Applied Intelligence won't share. Good luck with your crashes! And good luck in 30 days when your free trial expires.
I've tried "free". And I'd like to keep it, thanks!
i installed the linux version and it crashes when i try their demo software. wtf? i can't trace through anything. duh. is there an open version of this stuff? i guess it wouldn't qualify for their competition then though. oh, fuggit.
CxC is a closed, expensive software platform written by one company. Everything that open source software exists to prevent. Lets see an OpenGridChallenge and lets not make it War. Lets make it competitive, but make it a constructive challenge. Like an Earth Weather simulator, Maintaining the structure of an underwater skyscraper built with proactive energized joints, or a biological process simulator. The project with the most efficiency in some given resepect wins.
Globus is an open-source grid computing project based on the Open Grid Services Architecture. Start with that.
I've written a warrior, but I can't test it since I can't even compile the app...
stupid design, looks like you compile the application with the warriors built into the exe.
What is needed is a dynamic loader / compiler / interpreter built into the game engine like core wars does.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
CxC is apparently closed proprietary language and all they offer for downloading is some gw2something.exe. And don't even get me started about the flash only web site...
I'm not quite sure slashdot is the correct forum for advertising such crap.
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Corewars which is still going strong and can still be read about in rec.games.corewar was a similar concept. This might be as interesting but
its certainly not new , though with MS being plastered across the screen I guess re-inventing the wheel and shouting all about it was somewhat expected.