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Gridwars (aka GRID WARS) was a programming contest announced in November 2002 by Engineered Intelligence (EI).^[1] The competition was devised to promote EI's product called CxC (a parallel programming language) introduced the same day.^[2] Gridwars was also announced in selected forums and through personal invitations.^[3]

Four contests were held in total: in February 2003, in June 2003 (Gridwars II), in November 2003 (Gridwars Interactive), and in April 2004 (Gridwars III).

EI was founded by Matt Oberdorfer; in the late 2005 EI discontinued CxC and announced a new product called "I/O accelerator". In the early 2006 EI changed name to Gear6 and replaced Gridwars front page with the announcement of discontinuation. Shortly after the web site www.gridwars.com was shut down.