[AG-USERS] Hello, introductions

[Michael Daw]

Hi everyone,

We here in Manchester built an AG node with the express purpose of
participating in SC Global 2001. In doing that we became the first node in
the UK (inaugural meeting August 2001) and presented or took part in about 5
SC Global events. Since then, we've been at the forefront of spreading the
Good Word in the UK. There are now 12 UK sites, soon to grow to 17. These
have been built as part of the UK e-Science Programme, which is essentially
building the UK Grid.

We at Manchester are currently trying to find the money to build a second AG
node with an integrated 3D visualization component. We're also trying to
secure the funding for a full-blown UK effort to help with the whole AG2.0
effort and beyond. For ages now, it's felt like we're just on the verge of
this (still does!).

As you may know, I'm on the SC Global 2003 committee as Technical Director
and try to be as active as one person can be in different aspects of the AG
community.

--Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-users at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-users at mcs.anl.gov]On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
> Sent: 27 February 2003 19:15
> To: ag-users at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [AG-USERS] Hello, introductions
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Since this is a new list, and we haven't before tried to gather
> non-technical AG users in this sort of way, I'm very curious to hear
> who's joined the list and in what ways you're using the AG. So, I'd like
> to encourage everybody to send a little mail by way of introduction.
>
> As for myself, I was an early adopter of the AG in the summer of 99,
> when we were planning for the Alliance Chautauqua conference series and
> starting to bring the first few nodes online. I've been involved in
> managing events of all sizes, and am currently leading SC Global
> (http://www.scglobal.org/) and the AG Documentation Project
> (http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/). I also manage BU's AG facility
> (http://scv.bu.edu/accessgrid/); we're still operating in a rather
> informal fashion, but playing around with the idea of eventually
> formalizing our operations, with written policies and such.
>
> So how about you? Who's out there, and what are you involved with
> regarding the AG?
>
> Cheers,
> Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
> Project Manager
> Scientific Computing and Visualization
> Boston University
> jtvh at bu.edu
>
>
>