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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 06:59:26 -0500
From: Steve Crumb <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Important GGF12 News


1. Two days left for reduced registration for GGF12
2. Tutorial registration still open
3. CIM Orientation
4. Workshops
5. Case Studies

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1. Only two days remain for GGF12 registration at a reduced rate.  After
midnight, 10 September, fees will be increased to the "on-site"
rates.  Please take advantage of this opportunity to save on your
registration by visiting: http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=15539.

2. Tutorial registration is still open and will continue through 19
September.  The tutorials offered at GGF12 include:

Tutorial 5 Grid Computing using .NET and WSRF.NET Marty Humphrey (U. of
Virginia), Tuesday, September 21,  9:00am - 12:30pm

Tutorial 6 The Globus Toolkit "Ecosystem" (and how to make it work for
you), Lee
Liming (Argonne National Lab), Tuesday, September 21, 9:00am - 12:30pm

Tutorial 7 Grid Portals, Arsi Vaziri (NASA), Dennis Gannon (IU), Jason
Novotny (GridLab), Tuesday, September 21, 9:00am - 12:30pm

Tutorial 8 Extending and Applying the Community Scheduler Framework (CSF),
Chris Smith (Platform), Tuesday, September 21, 12:30pm – 5:00pm

Tutorial 9 Semantic Grids Carole Goble (U of Manchester), David De Roure (U of
Southhampton), Marlon Pierce (Indiana U.), Tuesday, September 21, 12:30pm –
5:00pm

Tutorial 10 Distributed Resource Management Application API, Peter Troeger
(U. of Potsdam), Daniel Templeton (Sun), Hrabri L. Rajic (Intel), Tuesday,
September 21, 9:00am - 12:30pm

The fee for tutorials is $75 each. Visit
<http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=15421>http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=<http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=15421>15421
to register.

3. CIM Orientation

GGF and DMTF are establishing closer working relationships at both the
management and technical levels.  One initiative to enhance our
collaboration at the technical level is the offering of a free orientation
to the Common Information Model (CIM) on Monday, September 20, from
9:00am-5:00pm at Vrije University.  This orientation will show the
significance of CIM, why it so important to the grid community, how it is
coded, and how it fits with OGSA.  For more information, visit
<https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/cgs-wg/document/CIM-Orientation-Sessions/en/1>https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/cgs-wg/document/CIM-Orientation-Sessions.

4. Workshops

On Monday, September 20, from 9:00am-6:00pm, at the Vrije University, the
following workshops will be offered:
Grid Application Programming Interfaces Workshop
(<http://www.zib.de/ggf/apps/meetings/ggf12.html>http://www.zib.de/ggf/apps/meetings/ggf12.html)

CDDLM of Grid Services Workshop
(<http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/ggf/SDWorkshopProposal.htm>http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/ggf/SDWorkshopProposal.htm)

Operational Security for the Grid Workshop
(<http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ggf12-sec-wkshp/>http://grid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ggf12-sec-wkshp/)

On Tuesday, September 21 from 2pm-6pm at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, the
following workshop will be offered:
Enterprise Grid Solutions & Deployments Workshop
(<http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/groc/ggf12/EGRWS.htm>http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/groc/ggf12/EGRWS.htm).

5. Case Studies

Immediately following the final keynote and lunch on Tuesday, GGF will
offer four 90-minute case studies highlighting consumer grid deployments.
These will be presented at the Crowne Plaza hotel and a fee of $35 will
enable you to visit any or all of these four studies (though two are
offered in parallel with the other two).

Grid Case Study 1 Cadence Design Systems gridMatrix Grid Initiative, Darren
Pulsipher Tuesday, September 21, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Grid Case Study 2 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Embraces Grid Computing for Data Analysis, Roy Reter, NIEHS, Cheryl
Doninger, SAS Institute, Tuesday, September 21, 2:00pm - 3:30pm

Grid Case Study 3 Designing & Managing an Engineering Grid, John Mincarelli
and Sriram Sitaraman (Synopsys Incorporated), Tuesday, September
21,   4:00pm - 5:30pm

Grid Case Study 4 Texas Tech University Adopts Grid Computing, Tho Ngyuen,
SAS Institute, Tuesday, September 21, 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Steve Crumb
Executive Director, Global Grid Forum
630-252-8610 (New Office Number)
630-915-3324 (New Cell Number)
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