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August 21, 2006
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Special Features:
OGF Elects At-Large Boards Members
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) has completed its process for electing its at-large board representatives. The new at-large board members are: Jason Carolan, Sun Microsystems; Charlie Catlett, TeraGrid, University of Chicago/Argonne National Lab; Hiro Kishimoto, Fujitsu; Bill Nitzberg, Altair Engineering; and Paul Strong, eBay.
These five at-large members will join the board representatives from the OGF's 10 Platinum organizational members: Intel, Oracle, IBM, Network Appliance, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu-Siemens, UK eScience/DTI, EMC Corp. and Platform Computing.
The 15 board members will hold their first OGF Board meeting in Cupertino, Calif., on Aug. 24. At the Town Hall session at GridWorld/GGF18 in Washington D.C., the OGF community will have the opportunity to meet several members of the new board along with members of the OGF leadership team.
If you are interested in the process followed for the at-large election, refer to www.ogf.org/merger_docs/OGFBoardInitialAppointmentAgreement.pdf.
These five at-large members will join the board representatives from the OGF's 10 Platinum organizational members: Intel, Oracle, IBM, Network Appliance, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu-Siemens, UK eScience/DTI, EMC Corp. and Platform Computing.
The 15 board members will hold their first OGF Board meeting in Cupertino, Calif., on Aug. 24. At the Town Hall session at GridWorld/GGF18 in Washington D.C., the OGF community will have the opportunity to meet several members of the new board along with members of the OGF leadership team.
If you are interested in the process followed for the at-large election, refer to www.ogf.org/merger_docs/OGFBoardInitialAppointmentAgreement.pdf.