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Grid Workshop To Focus On Old Challenges, New Disciplines

"Social Factors, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: Old Challenges and New Disciplines for Grid Computing" will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 10, as part of the GGF11 being held in Honolulu.

This workshop will examine the social aspects of Grid computing as well as the newly emerging Grid applications in the area of the arts, humanities and social sciences. The purpose of this workshop is two-fold:

  • Illustrate the use of Grid technology into the arts, social sciences and humanities communities. To accomplish this, we will present exemplars of early adopters of Grid computing in the areas humanities, arts and social sciences, as well as other disciplines that can be modeled by the HASS Grid community.
  • Address one of the most complex and fundamental issues in the success of Grid deployment -- social issues. Surveys around the globe seem to indicate there are many social issues that hinder the successful deployment and adoption of Grid technology.

This workshop will address:

  • Success Stories around the globe in arts, humanities and social sciences and how various organizations have managed to deploy Grid.
  • Examine various organizational issues faced during Grid deployment.
  • Address the need and possible solutions for a Grid-Friendly-Software-Licensing-Model (Inter-organization, cross country issues etc)
  • Educate GGF participants about the social dynamics and issues involved in Grid computing.
  • Demonstrate how HASS researchers' creative processes can be expanded by the use of Grid technologies.
  • Educate current and new GGF technologists about these newly emerging/nontraditional areas in Grid computing.
  • Cost savings (time and resources) benchmarks due to Grid deployment.

Please go to www.ggf.org to register and make your lodging arrangements. You may register for a one day pass if you do not want to participate in any other GGF11 activities.

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