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Enter Warriors In GridWars Interactive 30

Posted by timothy from the shockwave-and-flash-arrrgh dept.
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.)
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  • 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.

  • Cant look at the site without flash. Hope it didn't have any information buried..
    Why people do this still i do not understand.
  • (Man that "Gay-O" troll has been posted like 7 times to this thread -- out of 11 posts so far!)

    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 (Windo

    • And now that I've reached the end of the install, there are other errors. The last page states:

      End

      Gridwars interactive - The Battle For Processors has been successfully installed.

      Click the following button if you want to see the latest information concerning gridwars interactive - The Battle For Processors :

      Select the following option if you want gridwards interactive - The Battle For Processors to be launched after exiting this install program

      1. They didn't properly capitalize the name of the

  • wow (Score:2)

    by Sparr0 ( 451780 )
    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.
  • 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.
  • 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 [globus.org] is an open-source grid computing
  • Sounds like an OK model for a competition, except for the lockin compiler, anything stopping someone from ripping it off and running it in a different environment?

    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.

  • 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.
  • 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.

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