DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20    ( Table of Contents )

Special Features:

GGF8 SEATTLE: "Building Grids -- Obstacles & Opportunities"

The Eighth Global Grid Forum meeting (GGF8) is ramping up to bring the world's top grid technologists and leading users of grid computing together in Seattle, Washington from 24-27 June. Take a look at the impressive roster of illuminating perspectives from Grid Computing Leaders and Key Industry Players -- sharing their thoughts, visions, and anxieties about building grids.

Keynotes

• John Gage, Chief Researcher, Sun Microsystems
• Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher, BARC, Microsoft Corporation
• Shane Robison, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, Hewlett-Packard Company
• Kenichi Miura, Chief Scientist, Computer Systems Group, Fujitsu America
• Prof. David Wallace, Vice Chancellor, Loughborough University
• Dr. Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Acting Director of Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, Applications, DG Information Society, European Commission

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Tom DeFanti, Director EVL, UIC
• Dr. Brian Carpenter, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
• Dr. Felipe Cabrera, Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation

Hot Topic Debates

• REAL Grids I (Taxicab Confessions) led by GGF Chair, Charlie Catlett
• International Grid Infrastructure: Is it Real or Simply a Dream? led by Fabrizio Gagliardi
• What Needs to be Done to Achieve International Cooperation on Open Software? led by Dr. Ian Foster

Full Plenary Available At -- www.ggf.org/Meetings/ggf8/default.htm

Over 40 GGF Working and Research Groups have confirmed that they will meet for working sessions on pending GGF technical specifications and informational documents.

New Topics For Tutorials Confirmed

• Security in Open Scientific Facilities
• Industry Experiences with Grids
• Access Grid -- Experiences in Collaboration on the Grid
• EU DataGrid
• The Grid Application Toolkit (GAT)
• Developing HPC Scientific & Engineering Applications
• Resource & Job Management on the Grid
• Introduction to Globus Toolkit 3.0.

Register NOW and save ~50% (ONSITE Tutorial Registration may NOT be available)!!

About GGF

The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of 5000+ individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies. GGF's primary objective is to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" -- technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines.

For more information www.ggf.org