[AG-TECH] Can't Attend SC? Register now for SC Desktop

[Randy Groves]

For those people who cannot attend the SC conference in person, a new
initiative, SC Desktop, offers the opportunity to participate in portions
of the Technical Program.  Though the most complete SC experience can only
be attained by actually being at the conference, SC Desktop uses Access
Grid (AG) Technology to connect virtual attendees to the conference from
anywhere in the world with a suitable network connection.

SC Desktop participants will have access to the invited speaker plenary
sessions, the Cray and Fernbach Award talks, and four of the six parallel
tech program tracks (two tracks of SC Papers, one track of Masterworks
presentations and one track of Exhibitor Forum). In addition, participants
can choose to view the SC Global Showcase; starting with the SC Global
keynote by Rick Stevens, father of the AG, and ranging across
presentations of collaborative art, Access Grid technology in real world
settings, developing high resolution visualization tools, developments in
Access Grid Applications, and panels on developing collaborative groups.

The registration fee for SC Desktop is $60.00 for ACM/IEEE members, $75.00
for non-members and $15.00 for students.  This fee includes the license
and training on inSORS software; for those using open source Access Grid
software an AG helpdesk is being established to assist with questions and
testing.  The training and network testing requirements mean that there is
NO LATE registration for SC Desktop.

To register for SC Desktop as an individual, attending from a Personal
Node (ie, a laptop or desktop computer in your office), visit the SC
registration page and select "SC Desktop" on the registration form. The SC
registration page is:

      https://reg.jspargo.com/sc2005/reg/

If you are interested in participating from SC Desktop from an AG node
that will be used by multiple people (ie, a "room node"), please send mail
to:

      scglobal at sc05.supercomputing.org

On behalf of the SC Global team,
Randy Groves
Boeing Company
SC Desktop Producer

SCGlobal '05 Committee:

Chair, Julia Mullen
Deputy Chair, Chair SC Global'06, Ron Rankine
General Producer - SC Global Showcase, Cindy Sievers
General Producer - SC Global Desktop, Randy Groves
Technical Director, Jim Miller
Networking Manager, Jeffrey Schwab
Floor Manager, Rollin Guyden
Remote Sites Manager, Donnell Sanders
Remote Site Coordinator - Canada, Many Ayromlou
Evaluation Specialist, Amado Gonzalez
Recording Specialist, Jonathan Tyman
Vollunteer Liaison, Tiki Suarez
SC Global Desktop, Linux Technical Coordination, Gavin Burris