[AG-TECH] SC Global news release

[Jackie Kern]

SC Global Seeking to Bridge Communities Through High-Quality Technical 
Presentations

PITTSBURGH, PA
It’s 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/