Dear All,

To keep you updated, let me report recent events, initiatives, projects
within the Gridbus Project and around the world.

1. I have attended Grid 2007 conference held in Austin, Texas. The
conference has many interesting papers, keynote talks, and tutorials.
Recently slides of some of these talks are put on the website. Pls check
out: grid2007.org

I have presented a tutorial on Market Oriented Grid Computing. Slides of
my talk can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/tut/GridTutorial.ppt

2. In addition, I visited few US universities as reported below:
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International Science Linkage (ISL) Project Visits and Talks

As part of the DEST International Science Linkage (ISL) Programme funded
Project on Utility Grids, Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya has
recently (during Sept. 16-30, 2007) visited: (1) Texas A&M University,
(2) Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, (3) Princeton
University and (4) the University of California at Irvine. This visit
assisted in making progress on the identified milestones of the ISL
project. It also helped in building and strengthening collaborative
efforts with Princeton University for new projects such as a recently
announced ARC Discovery Project (InterGrid: Peering Architecture and
Policies for Internetworking Disparate Grids):
http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/grants/arc_intergrid_sept2007.txt

In addition, Dr. Buyya has presented seminars on his research at Texas
A&M (part of a seminar-based Advanced Graduate Course in Computing),
Rutgers (Centre for Advanced Information Processing), and California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (UCI Division).
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3. Gridbus Project has received funding to work on Next-Generation
Enterprise Grids from Australian Research Council and Microsoft. More
at: http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/grants/arc_linkage_may2007.txt

4. Upcoming Grid events:
The program 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid
Computing has been decided. For details, pls see:
http://www.escience2007.org/

I will be attending this conference in Bangalore (in Dec.). If any of
you happen to be there, it will be great to meet in person.

Best regards
Raj