Dear Friends,

* Let me start the first message for 2003 by wishing you a happy and prosperous
new year 2003 and beyond!

* Some of you probably aware of the upcoming meeting of the Global Grid Forum
in Tokyo, Japan. If not, please read that message (see below) that Clare Spartz from GGF has
requested me share with you!

* At the recent HPC Asia 2002 conference, http://www.cdacindia.com/hpcasia2002/,  held in Bangalore, India, Dec. 16-19,   I have conducted a tutorial on Grid Computing. Those interested, can download power point slides our Grid tutorial from:
      http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj/tut/GridTutorialHPCAsia02.ppt
 
BTW, I am currently visiting AIST, Tsukuba, Japan and will be here upto Jan 22. If any of you
are happy to be in Tokyo or place close to this, please let me know -- it will be great to meet you.

I will be back soon.

cheers
Raj

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Subject:	GGF7 -- 4-7 March -- Tokyo, Japan
Date:	Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:28:24 -0600
From:	Clare Spartz <spartz@...>
To:	rajkumar@...
CC:	spada@...

Dear Rajkumar,

Registration for GGF7 is going well -- we currently expect ~1000 participants but wouldn't be surprised if the numbers go higher as the "grid computing buzz" grows louder around the globe... In addition to notifying our GGF members and the GGF community-at-large, we are expanding GGF7 outreach to include the following:

-- Partner Organizations (Internet2, IEEE, CANARIE, etc.),
-- Conference Groups (COMDEX, Red Herring, etc.),
-- Select Analysts and GGF "Friends in the Press"

We'd appreciate your posting a notice of GGF7 on your website and forwarding the following message to your (very large!) network to broaden the pool of participants.

Thanks for your help -
Clare
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Clare Spartz
Director, Marketing
GLOBAL GRID FORUM
P - +630.252.0924
F - +630.252.1997
C - +917.860.9126
spartz@...

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Join fellow Grid practitioners, researchers and enthusiasts for the 1st GGF meeting to be held
in the Asia/Pacific region!!!

Over 1000 participants from across the globe are expected in Tokyo, Japan for GGF7, The 7th Global Grid Forum, 4-7 March 2003. The theme for GGF7 is "Grids Around the World" - this will strongly flavor the popular Plenary Track and the Tutorials for which highlights are listed below. (More details can be found at http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf7/default.htm )

Keynote addresses to include -
-- "Building an Open Grid" Dr. Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
-- Eng Lim Goh, Chief Technology Officer, SGI

Plenary Track Panel sessions to include -
-- Grid Applications Updates including presentations on (some topics still to be confirmed)

“Coupled Biological and Ocean Modeling”

“The Instrumented Oil Field”

“Fire Propagation Prediction”

“Medical services on the Grid”

“e-utilities on the Grid”

“Industrial simulations on the Grid”

“Agriculture applications on Grids”

“Earthquake applications on Grids”

-- Grid Technology Updates to include panel discussion on

"OSGA Implementation Status and Experiences"

"Grids Today - What is REAL?"

"Visualization on the Grid"

-- A special panel session - "The State of Grids, Hype versus Reality, and the Role of GGF" (in cooperation with Tabor Communications)

**11 Tutorials on Grid technologies and critical topics (1/2 day each) - see http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf7/tutorials.htm

The GGF7 Meeting will take place at the Keio Plaza Intercontinental Hotel in Tokyo. A special GGF7 Hotel rate has been established for those booking through the GGF7 Registration website.

Questions??
Registration: registration@...
Housing: ggf-7@...
Membership: membership@...

We look forward to seeing you in Japan!