Dear All,

I have shared the message below with all of you earlier. So far,
we have mainly supporting Grid nodes that run Globus software.
Our group recently developed a GridNode Worker Module called Alchemi which
you can run on PC running Window OS + free .NET framework AND contribute
to our Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration. We are keen on having
many Windows OS based PC node in our testbed. Installation is very
simple. Please check out:
http://www.syntagm.com.au/alchemi/content/userdocs/sc2003.html
and download, install and email me when you do so.
We will be demonstrate our Grid technologies and applications at
Supercompting Conference (http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/) in USA
between Nov. 17-20. You help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Please let me know if you plan to install our Alchemi Worker Module.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers
Raj

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

The testbed we are putting together is growing rapidly -- thanks to the efforts
of all our
volunteers, contributors, and collaborators. The current status of testbed
(resources and
their configuration etc.) can be browsed via interactive portal:
http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/ (collaboration web page)
http://previn.cs.mu.oz.au:8080/gridscape-hpc/ (direct URL)
We had good access in getting access to majority of Grid nodes located in Asia,
Australia,
& Europe. The collaboration is also aiming to build a giant Grid containing over
100
"active" Grid sites/nodes around the world. Your help in this regard will be
highly
appreciated.

** After the HPC Challenge demo, we will be documenting all our efforts, how we
grid
enabled applications, what all Grid tools we used along with the results of grid
applications; and we will share them with you all.**

if you need any specific information/clarification, please let us know.

Thank you very much.
Raj
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Subject: Invitation to Join the Global Data-Intensive Grid Collaboration - for
SC 2003
HPC Challenge demo

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 six key data-intensive applications: high-energy physics, natural
language
processing, portfolio analysis, molecular-docking, neuroscience, and hydrology
modelling.
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://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/sc2003/

If the above request is agreeable to you, can you please provide us access to
your
machines (running Globus 2.2 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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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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