ChessBrain announces EHPG Networks as a key sponsor for its first official world record attempt

December 15th, 2003

The ChessBrain project, Newbury Park, California USA, December 15th, 2003

The ChessBrain project announced today that EHPG Networks will continue to host the primary ChessBrain SuperNode server during ChessBrain's world record attempt which is scheduled to take place on January 30th, 2004 at the NordU USENIX 2004 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

“800 Pound Gorilla is pleased to provide the network infrastructure for ChessBrain to achieve a new world record and make computing history. We also stand firm in our ongoing commitment to Chessbrain’s chess and distributed computing enthusiasts, that they will have a home on the internet with 800 Pound Gorilla.”, said Michelle Roy, President, 800 Pound Gorilla.

"EHPG has hosted ChessBrain's primary servers for well over a year and has provided exceptional service, support and reliability. We're delighted that EHPG has agreed to continue to host ChessBrain during our World Record attempt.", said Project Founder, Carlos Justiniano

About ChessBrain

ChessBrain has become the first distributed computing network to play online chess. The ChessBrain project is a non-profit Internet experiment founded in January 2002, and supported by hundreds of individuals from over fifty different countries.
http://www.chessbrain.net

About Eight Hundred Pound Gorilla (EHPG)
800 Pound Gorilla specializes in high availability, high speed co-location and managed hosting. With an excellent reputation and over 10 years direct experience in secure, managed internet hosting, the multi-gigabit 800 Pound Gorilla network directly serves web pages to over 2 million people per day.
http://800poundgorilla.net

Contacts:

Cedic Griss, Distributed Computing Foundation cedric@DCFoundation.org
Michelle Roy, President, 800 Pound Gorilla michelle@ehpg.net
Carlos Justiniano, ChessBrain Founder cjus@chessbrain.net