AI Challenge Source Code Repository

Codename: Epsilon

This code will provide the basis for the next contest (Winter 2011). Epsilon is supposed to implement the ants game.

Folder Contents

• ants/ - Everything related to ants: engine, starter packages, maps/mapgen, visualizer
• integration_testing - Anything related to testing/stress-testing the contest setup
• manager/ - Tournament manager which coordinates the workers and computes skill ratings
• worker/ - Standalone workers which run games (including compiler and sandbox)
• sql/ - Files for creating an empty sql database
• website/ - Main website and frontend

Initializing the git submodules:

• git submodule init
• git submodule update

Installation

This is out of date stuff. You might want to consult with setup/server_setup.py and the IRC.

Main Server

• Install Latest Ubuntu

• Install Dependencies:

apt-get install subversion apache2 mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql python-mysqldb openssh-server build-essential

• Create mysql aichallenge user and database

Schema files are located in sql/, from that folder execute

mysql -u $aichallenge_user -p'$db_password' $aichallenge_db < * .sql

• Configure www/server_info.php, sample file in www/server_info.php.sample

• Configure manager/server_info.py, sample file in manager/server_info.py.sample

• Create submissions directory and give www-data all permissions

Change www/check_submit.php and manager/compile_daemon.py to point to the submissions directory

• Setup apache to serve up www/ directory.

Worker

• For java bots apt-get install openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jdk

• Create the users with:

sudo python create_jail_users.py 10