The First Major Conference and Exhibition to Focus on Business Applications of Grid Computing

May 24-26, 2004
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Grid computing is for real! Web services, utility computing, .NET, CPU harvesting and distributed computing are just a few of the technologies that fall under the Grid computing umbrella. Gt'04 -- a premiere enterprise grid computing conference targeting industrial and commercial users -- will gather experts, and outline strategies and road maps for Grid deployment.

Grid computing links the power and resources of many computers to address problems that require a great number of processing cycles and the ability to manage extremely large amounts of data. Computers from many locations become one large virtual computer available to users throughout an enterprise. Processing power can be bought and used as needed, depending on the job at hand.

Grid Today 2004 will bring together three communities, academia, government agencies and private enterprise to explore the benefits of Grid computing. Backed by Global Grid Forum and Globus, and with a joint event planned for 2005, Gt'04 will take a major step in unifying the strengths of the three communities.

A special VIP program will assemble more than three dozen CIOs from some of the largest industrial organizations worldwide, representing the pharmaceutical, aerospace, financial services, insurance, automotive, semiconductor, online gaming, and oil and earth sciences industries.

Conference sponsors include Sun Microsystems, Butterfly.net, HP, IDC and Intel.