Dear Colleagues:

We have organised one day "Grid Computing and eScience/eResearch Expo"
at the University of Melbourne on Sep. 23 (Thursday), 2004, 10am-5.30pm.
Please see below for details and or glance at the attached PDF files.

Inauguration is scheduled at 10am. I would like to invite you to
attend this Expo especially during the inauguration. If you are
already booked at that time, please drop in at any time convenient to
you before 6pm on Expo day! I hope you will be able to attend the same.

Kindly share the message below with colleagues from your Department
and others who are interested in eScience, High Performance Computing,
Cluster, Supercomputing, eResearch, and Grid Computing.

Thanks
Raj

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Grid Computing and eScience/eResearch Expo
The University of Melbourne
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Date: Sep. 23 (Thursday), 2004
Time: 10am-5.30pm
Venue: Room. 4.04
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Melbourne, ICT Building
111 Barry Street, Carlton
Webpage: http://www.gridbus.org/expo/

*** An Invitation to Participate ***
*** Open to All and Free Entry! ****

The Expo organised by Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS)
Laboratory at the The University of Melbourne aims to:

* bring together researchers, developers and users of Grid technologies
and eScience & eBusiness (eResearch) applications to exchange ideas and
share knowledge,

* demonstrate Gridbus technologies and applications developed in
collaboration with Florey Institute, WEHI, School of Physics, Osaka
Univ. (Japan), UCM (Spain).

* explore how we can collaborate and work together in Grid-enabling your
applications and/or in advancing Grid technologies to the next level!

Grid Technologies @ Expo:
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At the Expo, we will demonstrate Grid tools and technologies that assist in:
* the construction of grids that scale from enterprise to global level,
* grid-enabling your resources and the publication of their services,
* resource management,
* workflow and process management,
* application development or grid-enabling legacy applications, and on
demand deployment of applications on enterprise and global grids.

The Gridbus technologies to be demonstrated include the following:
* Alchemi - .NET based Enterprise Grid
* Excel-Grid  A plug in for Spreadsheet Processing on Global Grids
* Grid Workflow Management System
* Gridscape
* Grid Service Broker

eResearch Grid Applications @ Expo:
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At the Expo, we will demonstrate how eResearch applications developed by
our collaborators harnesses enterprise and global Grid resources located
within the University, distributed across Australia connected via
GrangeNet, and part of the World-Wide Grid. The application
demonstrations include:
* High Energy Physics (School of Physics, UoM)
* Portfolio Analysis (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
* Natural Language Processing (Language Technology Group, UoM)
* Brain Activity Analysis (Osaka University, Japan)
* Molecular Docking for Drug Discovery (WEHI and CSIRO)
* Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
* Medical Imaging (Howard Florey Institute, UoM)

Contact:
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If you have any specific enquires and want to meet or discuss with us in
advance or later, please contact:

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
ICT Building, 111, Barry Street
Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053.
Ph: 83441344 Email: raj@...
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