Dear All,

Please find enclosed an invitation to participate in CCGrid 2004 conference
sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Task Force on Cluster Computing.

Please share it with your colleagues, friends, and students!

Thanks
Raj
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An Open Invitation to Participate in CCGrid 2004, Chicago (April 19-22)
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General Chairs Charlie Catlett and Pete Beckman, and Honorary Chairman
Ian Foster invite you and your team to join them for CCGrid2004, April
19-22, Chicago, IL http://www.ccgrid.org/ccgrid2004/ - And there are
less than two weeks left to take advantage of Advance Registration
Savings!

The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid) brings together the leading developers of cluster computing
systems and grid computing middleware from academia, government and
industry throughout the world. CCGrid 2004 will meet April 19-22, 2004
at the landmark Drake Hotel located on downtown Chicago's Magnificent
Mile and overlooking Oak Street Beach and Lake Michigan.

We are pleased to announce CCGrid 2004 keynote speakers Rick Stevens,
University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, Satoshi Matsuoka,
Tokyo Institute of Technology and Wesley Kaplow, Qwest Communications.

Tutorials include:
. WS-Resource Framework and WS-Notification - Introduction and
Early Experiences of the Globus Project - Steve Tuecke and Lisa Childers
from the Globus Project. WSRF was introduced in January 2004 as an
evolution of the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI v. 1). In this
tutorial, participants will learn from GT experts how the toolkit has
been impacted by the introduction of WSRF and the implications on future
releases. This will be the first public setting where early
experiences with WSRF in the GT will be discussed in detail.

. State of InfiniBand in Designing Next Generation Clusters,
Cluster-based Servers and Datacenters -Professor Dhabaleswar Panda from
The Ohio State University. Those interested in exploring all layers of
high-performance computing (i.e., networking, middleware, storage,
applications) will benefit from this tutorial as he describes the
advantages and novel features of InfiniBand while comparing it to other
interconnects like Myrinet and Quadrics.

. Using MPI-2: Advanced Features of the Message Passing Interface
- Rob Ross and Rajeev Thakur, both from Argonne National Lab. This
tutorial will include an overview of new features of MPI-2 and how it
can be used to increase performance. Because implementations of MPI-2
are currently available, the approach of this tutorial will be to look
at a series of programs (in C, Fortran, and C++) of increasing
complexity. This will enable tutorial participants to walk away with a
practical understanding of the basic message-passing concepts of MPI and
MPI-2.


Seven Workshops led by over 30 leaders in the community include:
. The 4th International Workshop on Global and P2P Computing
http://gp2pc.lri.fr/
. GAN`04, Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/gan04/
. DSM 2004, The 2004 International Workshop on Distributed Shared
Memory on Clusters
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/dsm2004/
. Grid.Edu 2004, International Workshop on Grid Education
http://www.csce.uark.edu/~aapon/grid.edu2004/
. The 2nd International Workshop on Parallel I/O in Cluster and
Grid Computing Systems
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~abawjem/myhomepage_files/cfp/ccgrid2004.html
. The 2nd International Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the
Grid
http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~huang/BioGrid-04/
. The 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Learning
Applications of Grid Technology
http://research.ac.upc.es/clag/clag2004cfp.htm


Advance Registration is available through April 5. Please register for
the conference and tutorials today to guarantee your spot at this
exciting event http://www.ccgrid.org/ccgrid2004/
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