[AG-TECH] SC Global news release
Jackie Kern
jkern at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Fri Mar 26 09:39:13 CST 2004
SC Global Seeking to Bridge Communities Through High-Quality Technical
Presentations
PITTSBURGH, PA
Its time to start planning to participate in SC Global 2004, the Access
Grid-enabled component of SC 2004. SC Global offers a chance for people to
participate in SC2004 without leaving home, and to contribute to SC2004
from a remote location. During SC Global 2003, 80 sites participated
remotely, using Access Grid, inSORS Grid, Windows Media, and VBrick, from
locations in 10 countries spread across five continents. This year's
conference will be held November 6-12, 2004, in Pittsburgh, PA.
"This year, we'd like to see all submissions for SC04 Papers, Panels, and
Birds of a Feather sessions express an interest in being part of SC
Global," said Jackie Kern of NCSA, SC Global 2004 Chair. "We want to bring
a wide selection of topics related to high performance computing,
networking and storage to an international audience through SC Global, and
to continue to represent many forms of diversity within the community of
high-performance computing."
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
both large and small.
SC Global 2004 will focus on traditional SC Technical Program content,
including Papers, Panels, and Birds of a Feather sessions, as well as the
Showcase of collaborative technologies for which SC Global has
traditionally been known. The SC Global committee looks forward to
receiving proposals for a wide variety of sessions, ranging from technical
papers on cluster architecture, to panels on grid middleware, to Birds of a
Feathers on international networking.
By their nature, most successful proposals for the SC Global program will
be collaborative undertakings. Therefore, proposals will be reviewed not
only for their technical excellence, but also for their feasibility as an
AG event. However, presenters do not need to have an Access Grid node if
they will be presenting from the conference site in Pittsburgh.
Proposals for SC Global which must be submitted between March 29 and
April 19 -- must include information about the AG locations proposed to
give presentations during the proposed session. In addition to the
Constellation Sites -- which present sessions in the SC Global program,
Satellite Sites will be able to interactively participate in the
conference, and Observer Sites to passively view the sessions.
(Participating as a Satellite or Observer Site requires less stringent
preparations, and does not require any proposal in April.)
Sites interested in participating in SC Global as a Satellite or Observer
Site are encouraged to attend the AG Retreat 2004, at Ryerson University,
June 9-11, 2004.
SC Global committee members include both veterans of previous SC Global
events, and new voices in the AG community; they represent organizations
from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan.
For detailed information, please visit:
SC Global 2004: http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/scglobal.html
Access Grid: http://www.accessgrid.org
Access Grid Retreat: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/flevents/ag/agr04/
Supercomputing 2004: http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/
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