Dear All,

Our proposal, entitled "Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration", for
demonstration as
part of the "HPC Challenge" event in the upcoming SC 2003 conference (USA) has
been
accepted. We aim to construct world-largest grid testbed and demonstrate five
data-intensive computing applications on it. I would like to invite you to join
us by
providing access to your Grid resources. A formal request is given below.

Also, feel free to share this message with colleagues/friends who might be
interested
in joining us.

I look forward hearing from your in the near future.

Thanks
Raj
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Dear Colleague:

I am pleased to inform you that our proposal "the Global Data-Intensive Grid
Collaboration" for demonstration as part of the "HPC Challenge" event in the
upcoming SC
2003 conference in USA has been accepated. The aim of this collaboration is to
assemble
applications, resources, and technologies of both tightly and loosely
coordinated groups
and institutions around the world in order to demonstrate the two HPC Challenges
of SC
2003: Most Data-Intensive and Geographically Distributed Applications. This task
is
ambitious, but it is not impossible; we are confident of meeting it with the
help of volunteers like you. The only requirement of being a member of this
collaboration
is that you are able to provide access to your Grid resources or even able to
assist
others with your expertise. The outcomes of this collaboration with all
volunteers and
participants.

The global data grid testbed constructed using volunteer resources will be used
for
demonstrating five key data-intensive applications: high-energy physics, natural
language
processing, portfolio analysis, molecular-docking and neuroscience. We also
encourage
you to demonstrate your own Grid application on this testbed.

The resources can be Unix-based machines or Windows-based machines (you need to
be running
our Alchemi software that allows you to create a cluster of window/.NET machines
and it
has been extended to provide access to cluster as a webservice, which our
gridbus broker is able to explore). More about H/W and software requirements for
participate in this collaboration can be found at:
http://jarrett.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/

If the above request is agreeable to you, can you please provide us access to
your
machines (running Globus 2.4 or above OR if are able to run our Alchemi on
windows with
.NET software).

We look forward hearing from your in the near future.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best wishes
Raj
On behalf of the "Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration"

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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
ICT Building, 111, Barry Street,
Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
Phone: +61-3-8344 1344 (office); +61-3-9569 8004 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; eFax: +1-413-845-2525
Email: rajkumar@... | raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj
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