ACCESS GRID RETREAT 2004 - JUNE 9-11, 2004

Mary Fritsch fritsch at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Feb 27 16:24:50 CST 2004


ANNOUNCEMENT
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ACCESS GRID RETREAT 2004
June 9-11, 2004
Toronto, Canada
Hosted by Ryerson University

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/flevents/ag/agr04/

The 4th Access Grid (AG) Retreat will be held June 9-11 in Toronto, Canada. 
This year's meeting will be hosted by Ryerson University in their Rogers 
Communication Center, an ideal venue for collaboration and interaction.

The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources including multimedia 
large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and 
interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These 
resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid. 
For example, the AG is used for large-scale distributed meetings, 
collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials, and training. 
The Access Grid began as a community effort in terms of development, 
support, education, and training; and it continues to grow as a result of 
this approach.  The AG Retreats, an annual tradition, reflect this 
community involvement.

The AG Retreats provide an interactive forum for Access Grid community 
including developers, node operators, and users to share recent experiences 
and research findings, to present ideas for future AG technical directions, 
and to train and educate AG newcomers. Participants depend on the AG 
Retreats for updates on topics ranging from AG collaboration experiences to 
node installation and troubleshooting to AG development directions. The AG 
Retreats are critical to the continued development, utility, and 
improvement of AG.

Typically the format of the retreat has been a two-day program including 
invited talks, contributed presentations, panel discussions, and 
birds-of-a-feather meetings. This year, the retreat scope has been expanded 
to accommodate the increasingly diverse interests of the global AG community.

As a special feature, Day 1 of the AG Retreat 2004 has been designated as 
the AG Showcase a full day of the most interesting, unique, creative, or 
practical applications of the Access Grid Toolkit. The AG Showcase will 
include 16 presentations or demonstrations, accompanied by related posters, 
selected from proposals received from the AG community-at-large. The 
submission process and requirements will be posted by March 5, 2004.

Day 2 and Day 3 (June 10 and 11) of this year's retreat will include 
hands-on working sessions, interactive panel discussions, special-interest 
group breakouts, and visionary keynotes. The content will focus on current 
AG practices and applications, future technical directions, and 
collaborative project experiences. The program will run in two parallel 
tracks: one focused on AG developer issues, and one focused on AG 
operations and use. A call for participation will be issued throughout the 
AG community by March 5, 2004, seeking presentations representing a broad 
array of experiences, developments, and ideas.

Registration and housing information will be posted by March 15, 2004. 
Special housing arrangements have been made by Ryerson University, 
available on a first-come, first-served basis. The hosting organization has 
kindly planned to provide a schedule for local events and activities to 
accommodate those interested in Toronto (including weekend activities).

NOTE:  Registration for this year's AG Retreat will be closed at 200 
registrants.

Key Dates and Deadlines

March 5, 2004 -Call for Participation (AG Showcase and AG Retreat Program) 
OPENS
March 15, 2004 -Registration OPENS
March 31, 2004 -Call for Participation DEADLINE
May 25, 2004 -Registration DEADLINE (assuming availability)

For more information, please contact 
<mailto:ag2004 at accessgrid.org>ag2004 at accessgrid.org.


----AG  2004 Organizing Committee





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