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SC GLOBAL SEEKING INNOVATIVE GRID
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It's time to start planning to participate in SC Global 2003, the Access
Grid-
enabled component of the SC2003 Conference Technical Program, and this year's
premiere showcase for innovative uses of collaboration technologies in the
context of high performance computing and networking.
SC Global offers a chance for people to participate in SC2003 without
leaving
home, and to contribute to SC2003 from remote locations. During SC Global's
debut at SC2001, 43 sites participated remotely, from locations in 11
countries spread across six continents. This year's conference will be held
Nov. 15-21 in Phoenix, AZ.
SC Global will connect the main conference location in Phoenix with remote
sites around the world using the Access Grid (AG), an ensemble of resources
that can be used to support human interaction across the grid. The AG runs
over high-performance IP networks, and has been in use since the summer of
1999 for distributed conferences, workshops, and meetings both large and
small. SC Global 2003 will include both innovative uses and discussions of
advanced collaboration technologies, and the traditional SC Technical Program
content (including Papers, Panels, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions). The SC
Global committee looks forward to receiving proposals for a wide variety of
sessions, ranging from technical papers to distributed artistic
performances.
By their nature, most successful proposals for the SC Global program will
be
collaborative undertakings. Therefore, proposals will be reviewed not only for
their innovative use of collaborative technologies and how compelling an
experience they create for participating sites, but also for their feasibility
as an AG event.
Proposals for SC Global which must be submitted between April 7 and 25 --
must include information about all AG locations proposed to participate in a
given session. In addition to the Constellation Sites, which present sessions
in the SC Global program, Satellite Sites will be able to interactively
participate in the conference, and Observer Sites to passively view the
sessions. (Participating as a Satellite or Observer Site requires less
stringent preparations, and does not require any proposal in April.)
Anyone wanting to learn more about SC Global and form collaborations with
other AG users to develop proposals for the SC Global program is encouraged to
participate in the 2003 Access Grid retreat, to be held at Argonne National
Laboratory on April 15 and 16.
SC Global was held for the first time in 2001, featuring sessions such
as:
- Showcase presentations of highly innovative content, including: Dancing
Beyond Boundaries, featuring dancers at distributed locations performing
together; Remote AG Explorer Robot; presentations by and discussion with
scientists from the South Pole Research Lab; and multispectral thermal images
of the World Trade Center site shortly after the September 11 attacks.
- Papers such as: "Supporting Efficient Execution in Heterogeneous
Distributed
Computing Environments with Cactus and Globus;" "Optimization of Component-
Based Applications within a Grid Environment;" and "Adapting Globus and
Kerberos for a Secure ASCI Grid."
- Panels and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions such as: "Can the Asia Pacific Grid
Contribute to the Science and Technology in the Asia Pacific Region?", "The
Computational Continuum from Human Genomes to Human Health", and "Broadening
the Grid - Increasing Minority Serving Institution Participation"
In 2003, the number of participating sites may as much as triple,
due in large part to the continued rapid growth of the AG. While there were
75 AG locations in existence in November 2001 and 43 participated, there
are 147 AG locations today, and many more expected to come online before
the fall.
SC Global committee members include both veterans of SC Global 2001, and
new
voices in the AG community; they represent organizations from the United
States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.
To join the SC Global 2003 community mailing list, send mail to
majordomo@bu.edu with a blank subject line and the words "subscribe scg-03-
community-l" in the body of the message (omit the quotes). For detailed
information, please visit:
SC Global 2003: www.scglobal.org
Access Grid: www.accessgrid.org
SC2003 conference: www.sc-conference.org/sc2003
SC2003 is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers
(IEEE) Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery's Special
Interest Group on Computer Architecture (ACM SIGARCH).
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