Dear All:

Please find enclosed Call for participation in "7th IEEE International
Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid [CCGrid 2007]" in Rio,
Brazil. Pls do share it with colleagues and friends.

I will be attending this conference and will also be presenting a
tutorial on Gridbus technologies. I hope to see many of you there.

Best regards
Raj

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
[CCGrid 2007]
May 14-17, 2007
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

[See http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/ for full details]

Sponsored by IEEE (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing), CCGrid
has become a premium conference of truly international coverage,
bringing together researchers and practitioners, and enabling them to
share their insight, results, and experiences in the multi-faceted areas
of Grid and Cluster computing. After Australia, Germany, Japan, United
States of America, United Kingdom, and Singapore, CCGrid comes to
Brazil. This year's conference will be held in beautiful Rio de
Janeiro, on May 14-17, 2007.

The conference includes 5 tutorials by leading experts in the field, 7
workshops, 2 keynote speeches, an industrial track with 7 of the largest
computer companies in the world, and a very strong technical program
containing 72 papers (from the 218 submitted).

As we hope you are going to see firsthand, the talks and demos presented
at the conference show the greater level of maturity Grids and Clusters
have achieved in the last few years. Cluster and Grid Computing started
with the promise to deliver unprecedent levels of parallelism to
high-performance applications. Subsequently, this goal has evolved to
support on-demand access and composition of any computational service,
provided by multiple independent sources. While the work in the initial
CCGrid conferences focused on the more basic computational
infrastructure needed to realize this vision, we now see a greater
number of application papers and also stronger industry interest and
involvement. Grids are integrating the world's computational
capability, enabling truly amazing and innovative applications to come
to life. And Clusters remain evolving rapidly to keep up with their
role of super-servers in the highly connected Grid ecosystem.

Registration can be made on-line at the conference site
[http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/registration.php]. Note also that there are 2
special programs that ease student participation. Students worldwide
are invited to apply to the IEEE-TCSC CCGrid'2007 Student Travel
Scholarship. And thanks to the considerable support from our local
sponsors, we proud to offer students from Latin American countries, not
presenting papers, a significantly reduced registration rate of USD80,
which also allows attending one tutorial by USD40.

We hope you can attend the conference, and enjoy our strong technical
program and your stay in Rio de Janeiro. Let us just remind you to make
your travel arrangements early, as entering Brazil may require a visa,
depending on your citizenship [http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/travel.php].
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