GECCO-2008 new contest problem!

In conjunction with the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Parabon Computation, the leading on-demand computation utility, announced today that it will sponsor a $1,000 prize competition in which contestants are challenged to evolve a program that can solve an arbitrarily scrambled Rubik's Cube. The competition is designed to demonstrate the combined capability of two complementary computing technologies provided by Parabon Computation. The Origin(tm) Evolutionary SDK (software development kit) uses computer-based evolutionary processes to derive (evolve) desired results and the Frontier Grid Platform harnesses the computational power of thousands of computers to deliver supercomputing as a service.