Dear All,

The first Australian Grid Workshop has been organised....
and thought some of you may be interested...Pls see below for cfp.

cheers
Raj

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The First Australian Grid Forum Workshop (OzGrid-1)

Dec. 9-10, 2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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The Workshop Website: http://www.gridbus.org/ozgrid/
The Australian Grid Forum: http://www.ausgrid.org/ | http://www.ozgrid.org/

Organised by:
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GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne,
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) and
DHPC Group @ The University of Adelaide

Call for Participation
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Introduction:
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Grid Computing is emerging as a next-generation parallel and distributed
computing
platform driven by the Internet, Web services technologies, and service-oriented
computing
architectures. Grids enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of
geographically
distributed resources, such as computers (PCs, workstations, clusters,
supercomputers),
data sources, and scientific instruments, for solving large-scale problems in
science,
engineering, and commerce. To realise the full potential of computing Grids, a
number of
projects, both within Australia and around the world, have been making steady
progress in
the design, development, and deployment of Grid technologies and applications.
Some
Australian Grid projects include: Nimrod-G, DISCWorld, GrangeNet, and Gridbus.

The interest in Grid computing, driven by real-world applications, within
Australia is
rapidly growing. The first Australian Grid Forum workshop (OzGrid) has been
proposed to
bring together (Australian and international) policy makers, researchers,
developers, and
users of Grid technologies and applications. As a open forum, the workshop is
designed to
promote the exchange of ideas and collaborations among different scientific and
business
communities. The workshop will also promote the development of Australian
academic Grid
testbeds that facilitate sharing of resources for technology research and
development.

In addition, the workshop is expected to prominently feature a discussion on
developing a
National Grid (e.g., APAC-II grid working paper) with community inputs.

This workshop also serves as the first meeting of the recently proposed
Australian Grid
Forum (AGF). The forum's steering committee meeting will also be held in
conjunction with
the workshop. This provides an opportunity for all participants to influence how
the AGF
should be organised and what it will do.

Scope:
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The OzGrid workshop invites proposals for presentations from the Australian Grid
community. The proposal should consist "presentation title,authors, speaker, and
abstract
of max 500 words". The presentation needs to include an overview of research,
applications, and future plans. The workshop will therefore provide a very
useful mechnism
for participants to find our what is happening in Grid computing in Australia.

Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Programming Models and Environments
* Remote Data Access and Management
* Grid Middleware and Toolkits
* Data Intensive Computing and WorkFlow Management
* Internet-based Computing Models
* Performance Evaluation and Modeling
* Service-Oriented Grid Architectures
* Resource Integration Issues
* Grid Information Services
* Grid Security Issues
* Web Services and Technologies
* Grid Economy
* Resource Management and Scheduling
* Grid Applications
* Advance Resource Reservation and Scheduling
* Scientific, and Industrial and Social Implications

Presentation Proposal Submission
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Please submit your proposal for presentation to Rajkumar Buyya by email
(raj@...)
on or before Nov. 25, 2002.

Workshop Co-Chairs:
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* Bill AppleBe, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
* Paul Coddington , University of Adelaide
* Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide


Local Organisation Committee
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* Jane Sabato , VPAC (Local organisation chair)
* Belinda Kesters , VPAC
* David Bannon , VPAC
* Sudharshan , VPAC
* Shoaib Burq, GRIDS Lab @ Melbourne
* Steve Melnikoff, GRIDS Lab @ Melbourne
* Srikumar Venugopal, GRIDS Lab @ Melbourne
* Jia Yu, GRIDS Lab @ Melbourne

Registration/Accomodation Queries:
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If you have not registered your attendance please email jane@....

If you require any assistance in booking accommodation please contact Belinda
Kesters
(belinda@...). Please note that we can gain discounts on accommodation
rates in
Melbourne at a convenient location.
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