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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Special Features:
SC GLOBAL TECHNICAL PREPARATIONS BEGIN AT ACCESS GRID RETREAT
It's time to start planning your participation in SC Global 2004, the Access
Grid-enabled component of SC2004. SC Global offers a chance for people to
participate in SC2004 without leaving home and to contribute to SC2004 from a
remote location.
SC Global will connect the main conference location in Pittsburgh 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.
During SC Global 2003, 80 sites participated remotely using Access Grid,
inSORS Grid, Windows Media and VBrick, from locations spread across five
continents and 10 countries. This year's conference will be held November 6-12
in Pittsburgh; remote participation is expected to exceed that of last year.
Many SC Global committee and remote site representatives are meeting June 9-11
at the annual AG Retreat, held by Argonne National Laboratory at Ryerson
University in Toronto.
"Early participation in technical preparations is the key to a successful SC
Global event, and the AG Retreat is an excellent opportunity for us to move
our planning into high gear," said Jackie Kern, SC Global 2004 chair.
"Beginning technical preparations now allows for extensive testing and
debugging of the global technical infrastructure and AG nodes across the world
that will participate in the proceedings."
In addition to the papers, panels, birds-of-a-feather sessions and
collaborative technologies showcase for which SC Global has traditionally been
known, this year's SC Global event will include the SC Keynote talks broadcast
over the AG. The keynote address and other selected SC Global sessions will be
recorded by Internet2 Commons, using inSORS IG Recorder software.
SC Global technical test cruises will began June 8 and run through October.
Each geographical region will have a test cruise once a week to focus on local
and regional issues; once a month, global test cruises will be held for
purposes of testing the overall global infrastructure. Interested sites should
register at www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/events/scg2004/ to be contacted
with dates and times for the appropriate test cruises.
More details about SC Global (including the full SC Global program, when it
becomes available) will be available at
www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/scglobal.html.
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