Dear All,

Please distribute the below Call for Participation for e-Science and
Grid Computing Conference as appropriate.

As indicated in the CFP, the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing, The University of Melbourne, and C-DAC sponsored travel
support is being offered to students (for both international and
India-based students). Please see:
   http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSC-UnimelbGrant.html
Please encourage research students to apply.

Thank you.
Raj

***************************************************************************
                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

     Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
                  December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

                       http://www.escience2007.org

                                   Sponsored By:
         IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
                              http://www.ieeetcsc.org

                             Organised/Supported by:
                Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India
                     The University of Melbourne, Australia
                           Indiana University, USA
                    LSU Center for Computation & Technology, USA
                             EuroIndiaGrid Project
                 OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute), UK
                           Microsoft Corporation
                            Hewlett Packard (HP)
***************************************************************************

UPCOMING DEADLINES:

      * Advance Registration Deadline:  Nov 7, 2007


PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
------------------
The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research
communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and
enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present
the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and
highlight related activities from around the world.

Keynotes:
---------

The conference features plenary keynote speakers drawn from Europe,
North America, and Asia

The conference also features technical talks from industries.

Contributed Papers:
-------------------

The Program Committee has selected 60 top quality research papers out of
206 submissions from all over the world for presentation at the conference.

Workshops:
----------

* OGF (Open Grid Forum) Workshop on eScience Highlights
* Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in
    Distributed Resources
* Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science
* International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop

Posters and Research Demos:
---------------------------

The conference features 21 posters and 5 "live" research demons selected
from submissions from all over the world.

Tutorials:
----------

1. Introduction to Globus Toolkit GT4
Presenter: Ravi Madduri, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

2. Market-based Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
Presenter: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

3. Autonomic Grid Computing
Presenter: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University (USA)
Omer Rana, Cardiff University (UK)

4. Applications enablement on Grid
Presenters: Mangala and Prahlad Rao, C-DAC, India

The exhibition session will consist of exhibits/presentations from
vendor companies and R&D laboratories.

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS:
---------------------------------
The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, The University of
Melbourne, and C-DAC sponsored travel support is being offered to
students. All eligible research degree students are encouraged to apply
to one of the following related scholarships:
1. International Students (TCSC supported):
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSCgrant.html
2. India-based Students (TCSC and Uni. of Melbourne supported):
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSC-UnimelbGrant.html
3. C-DAC supported (For Indian students only):
    http://www.escience2007.org/scholarship.asp


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
------------------------
The conference registration includes attendance to all e-Science (1)
workshops, (2) tutorials, (3) technical sessions, (4) posters and
research demo, (5) exhibits and (6) a copy of the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society.
=========================================================================


--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************************************************************
                         CALL FOR  PARTICIPATION

     Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
                  December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

                       http://www.escience2007.org

                                   Sponsored By:
         IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
                              http://www.ieeetcsc.org

                             Organised/Supported by:
                Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India
                     The University of Melbourne, Australia
                           Indiana University, USA
                    LSU Center for Computation & Technology, USA
                             EuroIndiaGrid Project
                 OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute), UK
                           Microsoft Corporation
                            Hewlett Packard (HP)
***************************************************************************

UPCOMING DEADLINES:

	 * Advance Registration Deadline:  Nov 7, 2007


PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
------------------
The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research
communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and
enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present
the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and
highlight related activities from around the world.

Keynotes:
---------

The conference features plenary keynote speakers drawn from Europe,
North America, and Asia

The conference also features technical talks from industries.

Contributed Papers:
-------------------

The Program Committee has selected 60 top quality research papers out of
206 submissions from all over the world for presentation at the conference.

Workshops:
----------

* OGF (Open Grid Forum) Workshop on eScience Highlights
* Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in
    Distributed Resources
* Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science
* International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop

Posters and Research Demos:
---------------------------

The conference features 21 posters and 5 "live" research demons selected
from submissions from all over the world.

Tutorials:
----------

1. Introduction to Globus Toolkit GT4
Presenter: Ravi Madduri, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

2. Market-based Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
Presenter: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

3. Autonomic Grid Computing
Presenter: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University (USA)
Omer Rana, Cardiff University (UK)

4. Applications enablement on Grid
Presenters: Mangala and Prahlad Rao, C-DAC, India

The exhibition session will consist of exhibits/presentations from
vendor companies and R&D laboratories.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
------------------------

The conference registration includes attendance to all e-Science (1)
workshops, (2) tutorials, (3) technical sessions, (4) posters and
research demo, (5) exhibits and (6) a copy of the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society.
=========================================================================

Dear Colleagues:

1. I am pleased to announce TCSC - University of Melbourne Student
Travel Scholarships for eScience 2007 (for India-based Students). The
total funds allocated for this is A$5000 and this is part of the
University of Melbourne's sponsorship of $10,000 for the e-Science 2007
conference. For details on how to apply, please visit:
    http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSC-UnimelbGrant.html

Please share this message with students enrolled in postgraduate
(M.E./M.Tech./M.Phil/Ph.D.) program in Computer Science and Software
Engineering at an Indian university or educational institution; and
encourage them to take advantage of this opportunity.

2. Last week TCSC also announced travel scholarships, which are open to
students form all over the world:
    http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSCgrant.html

As a whole TCSC is able to support both international and Indian-based
research students generously.

Cheers
Raj

Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce that our Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing (TCSC) will be offering grants (travel support) for students
attending the 3rd International Conference on e-Science and Grid
Computing (eScience 2007) to be held in Bangalore, India in December
2007. The grants, totalling USD 5000, will be used for the partial
reimbursement of student expenses, with up to $1000 available for each
selected student. For details on how to apply, please see:
   http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSCgrant.html

Please share this message with prospective students.

Best regards
Raj

--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All,

A story/article on our GridSim is recently published. For details please check
out: http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000716

Thanks
Raj

Dear All,

To keep you updated, let me report recent events, initiatives, projects
within the Gridbus Project and around the world.

1. I have attended Grid 2007 conference held in Austin, Texas. The
conference has many interesting papers, keynote talks, and tutorials.
Recently slides of some of these talks are put on the website. Pls check
out: grid2007.org

I have presented a tutorial on Market Oriented Grid Computing. Slides of
my talk can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/tut/GridTutorial.ppt

2. In addition, I visited few US universities as reported below:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
International Science Linkage (ISL) Project Visits and Talks

As part of the DEST International Science Linkage (ISL) Programme funded
   Project on Utility Grids, Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya has
recently (during Sept. 16-30, 2007) visited: (1) Texas A&M University,
(2) Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, (3) Princeton
University and (4) the University of California at Irvine. This visit
assisted in making progress on the identified milestones of the ISL
project. It also helped in building and strengthening collaborative
efforts with Princeton University for new projects such as a recently
announced ARC Discovery Project (InterGrid: Peering Architecture and
Policies for Internetworking Disparate Grids):
http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/grants/arc_intergrid_sept2007.txt

In addition, Dr. Buyya has presented seminars on his research at Texas
A&M (part of a seminar-based Advanced Graduate Course in Computing),
Rutgers (Centre for Advanced Information Processing), and California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (UCI Division).
-------------------------------------------------------------------

3. Gridbus Project has received funding to work on Next-Generation
Enterprise Grids from Australian Research Council and Microsoft. More
at:  http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/grants/arc_linkage_may2007.txt

4. Upcoming Grid events:
The program 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid
Computing has been decided. For details, pls see:
     http://www.escience2007.org/

I will be attending this conference in Bangalore (in Dec.). If any of
you happen to be there, it will be great to meet in person.

Best regards
Raj

Dear All,

We just released a new version of GridSim. Please see attached release
notes for details.

Thanks
Raj

Gridbus Project to Release GridSim Toolkit 4.1
                             September 2007


The Gridbus Project at The University of Melbourne, Australia has released the
next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 4.1.

The new version of GridSim adds a new functionality that supports
resource failures and failure detection of Grid resources. This work was done
in collaboration with Agustin Caminero, a Phd student from
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain.

All components developed as part of the GridSim Toolkit are released as
"open source" under the GPL license to encourage innovation and pass full
freedom to our users. In addition, we have decided to use
SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridsim) for hosting
our future releases and developments. This allows us to share and
and to collaborate further on new functionalities.
Therefore, contributions to the GridSim Toolkit are greatly appreciated.

The early version of our GridSim toolkit has been used/dowloaded by several
academic and commercial organizations around the world including:
University of Southern California (USA), California Institute of Technology
(USA),
Argonne National Labs (USA), University of Manchester (UK), CERN,
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Indian Institute of Technology,
Tsinghua University (China), Sun Microsystems, IBM Research, Unisys, HP,
Northrop Grumman Information Technology, British Telecom and EMC Corp.

The GridSim software has been used for modeling and simulating many
interesting systems and ideas. For example, IBM Research uses our DataGrid
package to simulate a grid meta-scheduler that tightly integrates
the compute and data transfer times of each job.
Another example is Universidad de Santiago de Compostela's extension of GridSim
to optimize execution of parallel applications on a Grid.
Our own uses include simulating economic Grid scheduler in a competitive
economy model, economic based cluster scheduler and cooperative Grid federation.

The contributors to the GridSim software (from early to new version) are:
* Rajkumar Buyya, GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Manzur Murshed, GSCIT @ Monash University, Australia.
* Anthony Sulistio, GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Gokul Poduval and Chen-Khong Tham,
   Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering @ National University of Singapore.
* Marcos Dias de Assuncao, GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Uros Cibej and Borut Robic, Faculty of Computer and Information Service,
   The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
* Agustin Caminero, Department of Computing Systems,
   Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain.


To download the GridSim software, please visit the Gridbus Project web site at
http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim/

Join the GridSim mailing lists at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridsim

Dear All:

We have been working towards bringing out an edited book on:
               Content Delivery Networks
to be published by Springer. The book focuses on various aspects of CDN
with major emphasis on recent advances in the field. Please see the book
website: http://www.gridbus.org/cdn/book/
or attached Call for papers for details.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to contribute a
chapter for the book based on your research experience and expertise. We
welcome chapters on fundamental concepts, principles, architectures,
deployed systems (industry-based systems), case studies etc. That means,
chapters can be heavily driven by your (past/current) research work in
CDN area. Deadline for submission of expression of interest with a short
proposal on chapter to be written is: Aug 15 this month!

Also, if you know any other colleague who would be interesting in
contributing a chapter, please let us know. You are also most welcome
to forward this message to them.

If you need any specific details/clarifications on the proposal, please
let us know.

We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Best regards
Raj (on behalf of the editors)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Colleagues,

The University of Melbourne is looking for an excellent student
(Australian/New Zealand citizen or Australian PR visa holder) with H1
marks to carry out a PhD studies as part of an ARC/Microsoft funded
Project. The scholarship is very generous. Details are given below.
Those interested, please contact me. Also, feel free to forward this
message to suitable candidates.

We are looking for someone who can join us early (in the next 2 months
or so). However, I am happy to hear from candidates who have excellent
record so far and are likely to finish their current studies in next
couple of months.

We re also looking for international students to join us for research in
Grid Computing and related topics in Parallel and Distributed Computing
area. Please see: http://www.gridbus.org/join_us.html for details. We
offer scholarships covering tuition fee and living expenses for students
with excellent academic record. Those interested in pursuing PhD studies
at Melbourne, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks
Raj


----------------------------------------------------------------------
PhD Scholarship in Grid Computing
    Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
    Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
    The University of Melbourne, Australia
----------------------------------------------------------------------

A prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded PhD
scholarship is now available in an exciting collaborative project
between the Microsoft Corporation and the GRIDS Lab, Dept. of
Computer Science and Software Engineering in the the University of
Melbourne. Brief details of the project are given below:

--------------
Project Title: A Novel Software System for .NET-based Enterprise Grid
Computing

The ARC Linkage project, in partnership with Microsoft, aims to
develop a novel software system for enterprise Grid computing
using .NET technologies. It particularly focuses on: (a)
engineering a platform that allows rapid implementation of
different parallel models and scheduling techniques, (b)
developing a programming environment for composition of dataflow
applications, and (c) creating new scheduling algorithms for
optimal mapping of dataflow applications on dynamic enterprise
Grids. The project outcomes will enhance the productivity of
software engineering for enterprise applications and accelerate
their execution on enterprise Grids.
-------

The scholarship on offer through the grant is an APA(I)
(Australian Postgraduate Award -Industry) under A/Prof. Rajkumar
Buyya. The annual stipend for 2007 is (approx) $25,627 per annum
(tax free) with other benefits including travel opportunities and
internships at Microsoft (Research Asia, Beijing). The Project/GRIDS Lab
is willing to offer additional topup of $5,000. The scholarship
is available from July 2007 for upto 3 years of PhD studies. The
project will also involve a PostDoc and other team members of the
GRIDS Lab, thus presenting a significant opportunity to carry out
team-based research.

Eligibility Requirements:  The prospective candidate must :
--------------
1. be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian permanent
resident; -- This is a condition of the funding agency.
2. have completed a four year undergraduate degree (B.E/BSc (hons) in
Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent OR Master degree,
preferably with H1 results or equivalent (i.e., 80% or above);
3. not be receiving similar funding from a Commonwealth Government
Program;
4. not have already completed a degree at the same level or at a higher
level as the proposed candidature; and
5. not have previously held an APA or APA(I) unless it was terminated
within the first six months of the award.
--------------

Interested candidates can contact A/Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
(raj@...) directly with your CV, which includes
(1) details on average marks scored each semester/year, (2) R&D
experience, (3) any special projects carried out. Also include a
note on why you think you are a strong candidate for this project!
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Colleagues,

Pls find enclosed the final call for papers for e-Science 2007 conference.

Please note that we are not extending the deadline, but if you submit a
paper by deadline, you will automatically get 1 week to upload its
revised version.

Please share the attached CFP with friends, colleagues, and students
working in e-Science and Grid computing area.

Thanks
Raj

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  e-Science 2007 Conference: Call For Papers
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

      Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
                    December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

                           http://www.escience2007.org




                            Sponsored/Organised By:
       IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
        The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
  Center For Computation & Technology (CCT) at Lousiana State University, USA
                      University of Melbourne, Australia
                            Indiana University, USA

                                Call for Papers


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTE: All those who submit their paper(s) by the deadline (July 15, 2007,
23:59pm, Hawaiian Standard Time, i.e, GMT -10), will automatically get
"one" week of extra time to upload revised versions of their paper(s).
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The next generation of scientific research and experiments will be carried
out by communities of researchers from organizations that span national
boundaries.  These activities will involve geographically distributed and
heterogeneous resources such as computational systems, scientific
instruments, databases, sensors, software components, networks, and people.
Such large-scale and enhanced scientific endeavors, popularly termed as
e-Science, are carried out via collaborations on a global scale.

Grid computing has emerged as one of the key computing paradigms that enable
the creation and management of an Internet-based utility computing
infrastructure, called cyberinfrastructure, for the realization of e-Science
and e-Business at the global level.  To harness the potential of e-Science
and Grid computing paradigms, several national and international projects
around the world have been initiated to carry out research and innovation
activities that will transform the goal of e-Science and Grid computing into
a reality.

The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities,
developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies.
The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest
research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from
around the world.

Topics of interest concerning e-Science and Grid computing include, but not
limited to, the following:

     * Enabling Technologies: Internet and Web Services
     * Collaborative Science Models and Techniques
     * Service-Oriented Grid Architectures
     * Problem Solving Environments
     * Application Development Environments
     * Programming Paradigms and Models
     * Resource Management and Scheduling
     * Grid Economy and Business Models
     * Autonomic, Real-Time and Self-Organising Grids
     * Virtual Instruments and Data Access Management
     * Sensor Networks and Environmental Observatories in e-Science
     * Security Challenges
     * e-Science & Grid applications in Physics, Biology, Astronomy,
       Chemistry, Finance, Engineering, and the Humanities
     * Web 2.0 Technology and Services for e-Science

LOCATION
--------

The e-Science 2007 conference is being organized in conjunction with the
Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India.  Established
in 1988 by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
originally to develop the PARAM series of supercomputers, C-DAC has since
diversified to become the premier institute in India researching and
developing advanced computing to the furtherment of science, industry, and
business.

The conference will be held in Bangalore, India.  With metropolitan
population of 6.1 million, Bangalore is India's fifth-largest metropolitan
area, and the center of India's information technology industry.  It accounts
for around 38% of Indian software exports and is known popularly as the
"Silicon Valley of India" and "Information Technology capital of India".  The
recent software boom and globalization has made Bangalore an attractive
off-shore center for many popular IT firms.

The city is also home to a number of pioneering educational institutions.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is one of the most popular science and
technological research institutes.  The Indian Institute of Management at
Bangalore is one of the top Business Schools in India.

In addition to its technological prowess, Bangalore is also known as the
"Garden City of India" because of the large number of gardens and parks.  The
most famous of them are the botanical gardens, Lalbagh and Cubbon Park, each
around 240 acres of flora.  Lalbagh, meaning the "The Red Garden", was
constructed in 1760 and is known due to its abundance of red roses.  Cubbon
Park was built during the British rule in India and wonderfully constructed
public buildings reside amidst this wooded and grassy expanse.  The
Bannerghatta National Park, around 13 miles from the city, is a known for the
lion and tiger safari and a nature lover's delight to see the fauna in their
natural habitat.

Another attraction is the Vidhana Soudha, a majestic building comprising of
skillful blending of ancient and modern architectural styles with richly
carved bases and capitals for pillars, deep friezes, Kapotha cornices,
Chaithya arches.  This building houses the State Legislature of Karnataka
state and is one of the major visitor attractions of Bangalore.  Bangalore
Palace is built similar to the medieval castles in Normandy and England.

TRAVEL
------

Bangalore's HAL Airport (IATA code: BLR) is India's fourth busiest and serves
both domestic and international flights.  International airlines such as
Air-India, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Air France provide
convenient direct flights from Bangalore to destinations in Asia and Europe,
such as Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Singapore.

PAPER SUBMISSION
----------------

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double
column text using single-spaced, 10-point font size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages,
as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines:

     ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/

Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (Level 2) file that will print on a
PostScript printer.  The submission site is

     http://www.easychair.org/eScience2007/

For the most up-to-date information, please check the conference website.
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital
Library.

e-Science 2007 will also feature workshops, tutorials, exhibits, posters,
research demos, and an industrial track.  To organize or participate in these
events, please see the conference web site.

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
-----------------------

Honorary Chairs:
     N. Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore, India
     A. K. Chakravarti, Advisor, DIT, Government of India
     S. Ramakrishnan, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
         India

General Chairs:
     R. Govindarajan, IISc, Bangalore, India
     N. Mohanram, CDAC, Bangalore, India
     Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Program Chair:
     Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

Program Co-Chair:
     Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA

Organising Chairs:
     V. Rao Aiyagari, DST, Government of India
     B. S. Bindhumadhava, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Posters and Research Demos Chairs:
     Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
     Prahalad Rao, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Web Chair:
     C. Madhusudana Rao, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Workshops Chair:
     Dick van Albada, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Industry Track Chair:
     M. R. Rajagopalan, C-DAC, Chennai, India

Publicity Chair:
     Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Publicity Co-Chairs:
     Radha Nandkumar, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),
         USA
     Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China

Finance Chair:
     K. Kalyansundaram, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Sponsorship Chair:
     S. Sadagopan IIIT, Bangalore, India

Tutorial Chairs:
     Mark Baker, The University of Reading, UK
     Sathish Vadhiyar, IISc, Bangalore, India

TCSC Steering Committee:
     Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, USA
     Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA
     Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
     Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation, USA
     Ron Perrot, Belfast e-Science Centre, Queen's University Belfast, UK
     Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
     Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Papers Due:                     July 15, 2007 * (1 week extra to upload revised
version)
Notification of Acceptance:     August 30, 2007
Camera Ready Papers Due:        September 14, 2007



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------

Full List at: http://www.escience2007.org/programcommittee.htm

David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
Richard Aló, University of Houston, USA
Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Gautam Barua, IIT Guwahati, India
Upinder Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Ok-Hwan Byeon, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Paul Coddington, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Peter Coveney, University College London, UK
Simon Cox, University of Southampton, UK
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Kelvin Droegemeier, Oklahoma University, USA
Mark Ellisman, University of California at San Diego, USA
John Essex, University of Southampton, UK
Deborah Estrin, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton, UK
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch,  D-Grid, Germany
Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA
Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute, USA
Domenico Laforenza, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
Erwin Laure, CERN, Switzerland
Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Michael Lewis, SUNY Binghamton, USA
Xiaoming Li, Peking University, China
Sang Boem Lim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Bertram Ludäscher, University of California at Davis, USA
Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University, USA
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK
Harvey Newman, Caltech, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Ron Perrott, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
Rob Procter, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mark Pullen, George Mason University, USA
VCV Rao, C-DAC, India
John Reynders, Eli Lilly, USA
John Rundle, University of California at Davis, USA
Vadhiyar Sathish, Indian Institute of Science, India
Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA
Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA
Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA
Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
     Technology, Japan
Sameer Tilak, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Herbert Van De Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Frank van Lingen, Caltech, USA
Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
David Walker, Cardiff University, UK
Roy Williams, Caltech, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
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Dear All:

We have been working towards bringing out an edited book on:
         Market-Oriented Grid Computing
focusing on various aspects of Grid Economy and Business models. We have
been interacting with Wiley who have shown strong interest in publishing
the proposed book. A formal Call for Chapters is enclosed.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to contribute a
chapter for the book based on your research experience and expertise. We
welcome chapters on fundamental concepts, principles, architectures,
deployed systems (academic or industry-based systems), case studies etc.
That means, chapters can be heavily driven by your (past/current)
research work or compilation of a chapter based on study on a specific
topic in Market-Oriented computing area.

The Publisher has asked us to identify a list of prospective authors
along with a title of their proposed chapter(s) and short biography.

We sincerely hope that you will agree to contribute a chapter for the
book. Also, if you know any other colleague who you think would be able
to contribute a chapter, please let us know. You are also most welcome
to forward this message to them.

If you need any specific details/clarifications on the proposal, please
let us know.

We look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

Best regards
Raj
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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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Dear All:

I am pleased to report on the key activities and outcomes of Grid
Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University
of Melbourne, Australia during the academic year 2006, which has been a
significant year for GRIDS Lab and its members. The full report can be
browsed from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/reports/GRIDS-Lab-AnnualReport2006.pdf

I know some of you have heard occasional bits covered in this report,
but I think this report captured full spectrum of activities. The brand
new information that you find is reports of research activities by
various members of GRIDS Lab in 2006 and their work into the future.
This should open up new opportunity to interact with our members
depending on your area of interest. Happy reading!

Thanks for your support so far.

Cheers
Raj
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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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The Gridbus Project Releases Grid Service Broker (v.3.1) Software
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia is pleased
to release a new version of the Grid Service Broker. The broker provides
capabilities such as resource selection, job scheduling, job management
and data access to any application that requires distributed Grid
resources for execution. The broker handles communication with the
resources running different Grid middleware, job failures, varying
resource availability, and different user objectives such as meeting a
deadline for execution or limiting execution within a certain budget.

With the current release, version 3.1, a new organisational structure is
provided for the broker, wherein the core is separated from additional
capabilities provided as plugins that can be selected according to usage
requirements. A new Ant build file has been provided to enable selection
of plugins and the automatic configuration of the broker thereof. Also
available is a new external plugin that uses the capabilties of the
Gridbus broker to schedule Grid workflows.

----------
What's New:
----------
-Plugin structure for middleware and programming models
-Ant build file for automatic downloading and configuration of broker
installation.
-Workflow engine plugin
-Thread programming model plugin (similar to Alchemi Grid Threads)

--------------------------------
Gridbus in e-Science Enablements
--------------------------------

The Gridbus Broker has been used in Grid enabling several e-Science and
e-Business applications. The most recent usages include:

* European Union funded Data Mining Grid Project, which developed set of
Grid-based datamining tools and used Gridbus Broker in managing
execution of data mining computations on global Grids:
http://www.datamininggrid.org/

* KidneyGrid partners including Melbourne Medical School and Université
d'Evry, France created a Grid portal that integrated distributed kidney
models.

* Molecular Modelling: As part of the Australian National Grid
(APACGrid), a portal for docking of molecules from CDB with protein
target with the aim of discovery potential drug candidates:
      http://grid.apac.edu.au/OurUsers/MolecularDocking

--------------------
Base Technologies:
--------------------

The Gridbus Broker v3.1 supports/uses the following middleware:
Globus 2.4.x, Globus 4.0.2, Alchemi 1.0.6, Condor 6.8.4, OpenPBS 2.3,
SGE, NWS 2.8, SRB(Storage Resource Broker) 3.x

The Gridbus Broker v3.1 supports/uses the following programming model:
    - Task/Job model
    - Gridbus Workflow
    - Grid Threading Programming Model

The Gridbus Broker v3.1 can utilise a resource via SSH for submitting and
executing grid jobs on: OpenPBS 2.3, Condor 6.8.4, SGE, Fork (on
Unix-like OSes)

Download information:
----------------------
The broker source code,binaries, documentation and manual can be
downloaded from http://www.gridbus.org/broker/

Contact Information:
---------------------
For further details about the Gridbus broker and/or the Gridbus project
please contact:
    - Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (raj@...) - append @csse.unimelb.edu.au
    - Srikumar Venugopal (srikumar@...)
    - Xingchen Chu (xchu@...)

Licenses and Disclaimer:
------------------------
The Gridbus broker and the GUI is distributed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL) (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt). Other
libraries included in the distribution are distributed under their own
respective licenses which are also included.

This product includes software developed by and/or derived from the
Globus project (http://www.globus.org/). This product includes dom4j
libraries (http://www.dom4j.org).  Other licenses can be found in the
licenses directory of the Gridbus Broker v3.1 distribution.

Acknowledgments:
----------------
The Gridbus Broker is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing
and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The
project is currently supported by the Australian Research Council and
DEST (Department of Education, Science and Training) grants, and the
University of Melbourne. We are grateful to, and sincerely thank all the
people who contributed to the Gridbus Broker project. For further
information on the Gridbus Project, please visit  - http://www.gridbus.org/
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Dear All:

Please share the enclosed CFP of e-Science 2007 with colleagues and
friends working in E-Science and Grid computing areas and encourage them
to submit their original papers.

Cheers
Raj
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    3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
                           e-Science 2007
                   Dec. 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

                   http://www.escience2007.org/


                   Sponsored/Organised By:
IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
     The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
      Center For Computation & Technology (CCT), LSU, USA
                The University of Melbourne, Australia
                       Indiana University, USA
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           Call For Papers

The next generation of scientific research and experiments will be
carried out by communities of researchers from organizations that span
national boundaries. These activities will involve geographically
distributed and heterogeneous resources such as computational systems,
scientific instruments, databases, sensors, software components,
networks, and people. Such large-scale and enhanced scientific
endeavors, popularly termed as e-Science, are carried out via
collaborations on a global scale.

Grid computing has emerged as one of the key computing paradigms that
enable the creation and management of an Internet-based utility
computing infrastructure, called cyberinfrastructure, for the
realization of e-Science and e-Business at the global level. To harness
the potential of e-Science and Grid computing paradigms, several
national and international projects around the world have been initiated
to carry out research and innovation activities that will transform the
goal of e-Science and Grid computing into a reality.

The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research
communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and
enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present
the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and
highlight related activities from around the world.

Topics

Topics of interest concerning e-Science and Grid computing include, but
not limited to, the following:

       * Enabling Technologies: Internet and Web Services
       * Collaborative Science Models and Techniques
       * Service-Oriented Grid Architectures
       * Problem Solving Environments
       * Application Development Environments
       * Programming Paradigms and Models
       * Resource Management and Scheduling
       * Grid Economy and Business Models
       * Autonomic, Real-Time and Self-Organising Grids
       * Virtual Instruments and Data Access Management
       * Sensor Networks and Environmental Observatories in e-Science
       * Security Challenges
       * e-Science & Grid applications in Physics, Biology, Astronomy,
         Chemistry, Finance, Engineering, and the Humanities
       * Web 2.0 Technology and Services for e-Science

e-Science 2007 will also feature workshops, tutorials, exhibits, and an
industrial track. To organize or participate in these please visit the
conference website.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double
column text using single-spaced, 10-point font size on 8.5 x 11 inch
pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines:

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/

Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (Level 2) file that will print
on a PostScript printer. Full paper submission instructions will be
placed on the conference website. The conference proceedings will be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made
available online through the IEEE Digital Library.


Program Chair:

Geoffrey Fox,
Indiana University, USA.

Important Dates

Papers Due: July 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2007
Camera Ready Papers Due: September 14, 2007
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All:

We have initiated a new project, called "InterGrid", which aims at
developing "Peering Architecture and Policies for Internetworking
Disparate Grids". A high level summary of the project aims is given below:
--------------
Summary: Grid computing enables the creation of Cyberinfrastructure for
e-Science and e-Business applications. Several nations around the world
including Australia have developed their own national Grids based on the
notion of virtual organisations. These dispersed Grid initiatives have
resulted in islands of Grids without any support for peering
arrangements between them. This limitation will impede realisation of
full potential of the Grid computing paradigm. This InterGrid project
aims to revolutionise Grid computing by investigating and developing (a)
architectural principles for interlinking Grids, (b) mechanisms for
resource provisioning and allocation within and across Grids and (c)
peering policies and algorithms for inter-Grid resource management.
---------

As you can see this InterGrid project is highly ambitious, a single
research group like ours cannot solve all research challenges.
Therefore, we developed a detailed research agenda with the aim of
sharing it with international community of researchers interested in
pursing this new research area with in Grid computing. An article
describing InterGrid research agenda can be downloaded from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/papers/InterGrid.pdf

It will be great to hear from those of you interested in pursuing some
of the research challenges identified in this research agenda.

Best regards
Raj

Dear Colleagues:

The University of Melbourne (GRIDS Lab) has an opening for Research
Fellow (Grid Computing) position at "PostDoctoral" Level to work on
Australian Research Council (ARC) funded Discovery Project “QoS-based
Scheduling of e-Research Application Workflows on Global Grids”.
Candidates about to complete their PhD studies (in 2-3 months) are also
eligible. Pls see attached message (below) for details.

We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record in parallel
and distributed computing research especially in Grid computing with
focus on resource management, SLA-based resource allocation, and QoS
scheduling. If you know any such candidate who might be interested in
opening at the University of Melbourne, please share this message with them.

Thanks
Raj

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Research Fellow (Grid Computing) at PostDoctoral Level
Salary: $47,782 - $64,840 (Level A)
Employment type: Full-time Fixed Term
Campus: Parkville
Dept: Computer Science and Software Engineering

Remuneration

Salary: $47,782 - $64,840 p.a.  (Research Fellow Grade 1, Level A)
Superannuation: Employer superannuation contributions of 9 percent.

The position is within the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems
(GRIDS) Laboratory, with Australian Research Council (ARC) funded
Discovery Project “QoS-based Scheduling of e-Research Application
Workflows on Global Grids”. The objective of this project is to develop
a system and algorithms for scheduling workflow applications on global
Grids. This position reports to Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya and
research will be carried out as part of a larger Gridbus Project
(http://www.gridbus.org).

Project Summary: The emerging Grid computing and e-Science paradigm
enables researchers from different disciplines and organisations to
engage in collaborative scientific investigation. They need to share
geographically distributed resources owned by different organisations.
Grid applications need to negotiate with resource providers for
guarantees on access time, duration and level of quality of service
(QoS). To meet these requirements, this project aims to develop
technologies that support (a) QoS-based scheduling of e-Research
application workflows on distributed resources, (b) mechanisms for
negotiating service level agreements (SLA) with resource providers, and
(c) a system that supports SLA-based allocation and management of resources.

For details on position description, eligibility, and application
process, please visit:
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=313772
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All:

The University of Melbourne has an opening for a Research Fellow at
PostDoc Level in the area of Grid Computing to work on a DEST funded
International Science Linkage Project. A summary of project is enclosed
below.

Details on how to apply for this position can be found at:
http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=307232
Due to funding body's condition, the candidate has be an Australian
citizen or Permanent resident visa holder. Currently the position is
advertised as 1 year position, but it has potential to be extensible
upto 2.5 years.

Kindly share this message with your students or any other researchers
who are looking for opportunities.

Thanks for your help.

Happy easter!
Raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------------------
International Science Linkage Project: funded by Australian Department
of Science, Education and Training

Project Title:
The Utility Grid Project: Autonomic and Utility-Oriented Global Grids
for Powering Emerging e-Research Applications.

Project Duratin: 3 years (from 2007-2009)

Project Summary:
Grid computing is emerging as an enabler for the creation of global
Cyberinfrastructure for e-Research applications and is recognised as one
of the top five emerging technologies that will have a major impact on
the quality of science and society over the next 20 years. This project
will link Australian researchers with international researchers through
two EU FP6 projects: CoreGrid and CatNets. The project is aimed at
enhancing the scope and depth of Australian R&D in Grid computing and
e-Research; establishing linkages to enable the leveraging of the
capabilities and resources of both Australian and international
partners; and developing grid technologies that improve agility and
utility of national and international Cyberinfrastructure powering
e-Research applications.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
   3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
                          e-Science 2007
                  Dec. 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

                  http://www.escience2007.org/


                  Sponsored/Organised By:
IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
    The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
     Center For Computation & Technology (CCT), LSU, USA
               The University of Melbourne, Australia
                      Indiana University, USA
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          Call For Papers

The next generation of scientific research and experiments will be
carried out by communities of researchers from organizations that span
national boundaries. These activities will involve geographically
distributed and heterogeneous resources such as computational systems,
scientific instruments, databases, sensors, software components,
networks, and people. Such large-scale and enhanced scientific
endeavors, popularly termed as e-Science, are carried out via
collaborations on a global scale.

Grid computing has emerged as one of the key computing paradigms that
enable the creation and management of an Internet-based utility
computing infrastructure, called cyberinfrastructure, for the
realization of e-Science and e-Business at the global level. To harness
the potential of e-Science and Grid computing paradigms, several
national and international projects around the world have been initiated
to carry out research and innovation activities that will transform the
goal of e-Science and Grid computing into a reality.

The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research
communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and
enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present
the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and
highlight related activities from around the world.

Topics

Topics of interest concerning e-Science and Grid computing include, but
not limited to, the following:

      * Enabling Technologies: Internet and Web Services
      * Collaborative Science Models and Techniques
      * Service-Oriented Grid Architectures
      * Problem Solving Environments
      * Application Development Environments
      * Programming Paradigms and Models
      * Resource Management and Scheduling
      * Grid Economy and Business Models
      * Autonomic, Real-Time and Self-Organising Grids
      * Virtual Instruments and Data Access Management
      * Sensor Networks and Environmental Observatories in e-Science
      * Security Challenges
      * e-Science & Grid applications in Physics, Biology, Astronomy,
        Chemistry, Finance, Engineering, and the Humanities
      * Web 2.0 Technology and Services for e-Science

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double
column text using single-spaced, 10-point font size on 8.5 x 11 inch
pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines:

ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/

Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (Level 2) file that will print
on a PostScript printer. Full paper submission instructions will be
placed on the conference website. The conference proceedings will be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made
available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

e-Science 2007 will also feature workshops, tutorials, exhibits, and an
industrial track. To organize or participate in these please visit the
conference website.

Program Chair:

Geoffrey Fox,
Indiana University, USA.

Important Dates

Papers Due: July 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: September 10, 2007
Camera Ready Papers Due: October 5, 2007
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All:

I would like to share some updates on Grid computing area and new
activities initiated within GRIDS Lab/Gridbus Project at Melbourne.

1. In the recent past, world-wide several efforts have been initiated
to enhance grid computing with capabilities that support Quality of
Services, service level agreements (SLA), utility-oriented allocation of
Grid resources to SLA dynamically. Even European Union has put together
a report on "Service-Oriented Knowledge Utility (SOKU): Vision and
Research Directions 2010 and Beyond" clearly signaling their intension
to support research around it as these are fundamental for wide-scale
adoption of Grid computing in enterprise applications.

2. Fortunately, this area has been key focus on our Gridbus Project
since its initiation in 2002. I happen to present a keynote talk at 14th
International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications in
which I have shared key outcomes of Gridbus project. The title of my
talk was "Gridbus Middleware for Utility Grids: Building Autonomic and
Market-Oriented Global Grids for Delivering IT Services as the 5th
Utility". Those of you who have not attended this conference, you may
may want to walk through my slides:
http://www.gridbus.org/talks/Gridbus-ADCOM2006-Keynote.ppt

3. Gridbus Project is going to continue push heavily in this space as we
have secured funds for Australian Research Council (ARC) and Australian
Department of Science, Education and Training (DEST). Details on these
two projects are included below.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRIDS Lab/Gridbus's New Projects from 2007-2009
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Discovery Project: funded by Australian Research Council

Project Title:

QoS-based Scheduling of e-Research Application Workflows on Global Grids

Project Summary:
The emerging e-Research paradigm enables researchers from different
disciplines and organisations to engage in collaborative scientific
investigation. They need to share geographically distributed resources
owned by different organisations. e-Research applications need to
negotiate with resource providers for guarantees on access time,
duration and level of quality of service (QoS). To meet these
requirements, this project aims to develop technologies that support (a)
QoS-based scheduling of e-Research application workflows on distributed
resources, (b) mechanisms for negotiating service level agreements (SLA)
with resource providers, and (c) a system that supports SLA-based
allocation and management of resources.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
International Science Linkage Project: funded by Australian Department
of Science, Education and Training

Project Title:
The Utility Grid Project: Autonomic and Utility-Oriented Global Grids
for Powering Emerging e-Research Applications.

Project Summary:
Grid computing is emerging as an enabler for the creation of global
Cyberinfrastructure for e-Research applications and is recognised as one
of the top five emerging technologies that will have a major impact on
the quality of science and society over the next 20 years. This project
will link Australian researchers with international researchers through
two EU FP6 projects: CoreGrid and CatNets. The project is aimed at
enhancing the scope and depth of Australian R&D in Grid computing and
e-Research; establishing linkages to enable the leveraging of the
capabilities and resources of both Australian and international
partners; and developing grid technologies that improve agility and
utility of national and international Cyberinfrastructure powering
e-Research applications.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
BTW, if you are still wondering about "e-Research" word, it is an
Australian term for "e-Science" or Grid applications.

4. In addition to the above two projects, GRIDS Lab has has expanded its
research areas such as (a) Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and (2)
InterGrid - Overlay Networks for Peering between Islands of Grids.
Please check out our websites for:
   CDN: http://www.gridbus.org/cdn/
   InterGrid: http://www.gridbus.org/intergrid/
These are large initiatives and should present significant opportunity
for creating new collaborative projects with international colleagues.

If any of you are interested in exploring these topics or have already
been exploring and wants to collaborate with us, please let me know.

Happy Easter!

Cheers
Raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All:

Please find enclosed Call for participation in "7th IEEE International
Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid  [CCGrid 2007]" in Rio,
Brazil. Pls do share it with colleagues and friends.

I will be attending this conference and will also be presenting a
tutorial on Gridbus technologies. I hope to see many of you there.

Best regards
Raj

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
[CCGrid 2007]
May 14-17, 2007
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

[See http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/ for full details]

Sponsored by IEEE (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing), CCGrid
has become a premium conference of truly international coverage,
bringing together researchers and practitioners, and enabling them to
share their insight, results, and experiences in the multi-faceted areas
of Grid and Cluster computing.  After Australia, Germany, Japan, United
States of America, United Kingdom, and Singapore, CCGrid comes to
Brazil.  This year's conference will be held in beautiful Rio de
Janeiro, on May 14-17, 2007.

The conference includes 5 tutorials by leading experts in the field, 7
workshops, 2 keynote speeches, an industrial track with 7 of the largest
computer companies in the world, and a very strong technical program
containing 72 papers (from the 218 submitted).

As we hope you are going to see firsthand, the talks and demos presented
at the conference show the greater level of maturity Grids and Clusters
have achieved in the last few years.  Cluster and Grid Computing started
with the promise to deliver unprecedent levels of parallelism to
high-performance applications.  Subsequently, this goal has evolved to
support on-demand access and composition of any computational service,
provided by multiple independent sources.  While the work in the initial
CCGrid conferences focused on the more basic computational
infrastructure needed to realize this vision, we now see a greater
number of application papers and also stronger industry interest and
involvement.  Grids are integrating the world's computational
capability, enabling truly amazing and innovative applications to come
to life.  And Clusters remain evolving rapidly to keep up with their
role of super-servers in the highly connected Grid ecosystem.

Registration can be made on-line at the conference site
[http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/registration.php].  Note also that there are 2
special programs that ease student participation.  Students worldwide
are invited to apply to the IEEE-TCSC CCGrid'2007 Student Travel
Scholarship.  And thanks to the considerable support from our local
sponsors, we proud to offer students from Latin American countries, not
presenting papers, a significantly reduced registration rate of USD80,
which also allows attending one tutorial by USD40.

We hope you can attend the conference, and enjoy our strong technical
program and your stay in Rio de Janeiro.  Let us just remind you to make
your travel arrangements early, as entering Brazil may require a visa,
depending on your citizenship [http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/travel.php].
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All:

I am forwarding this message on behalf of Guest Editor of IEEE Journal.
Special Issue on Grid Resource Management

Details: visit
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~bsim/ISJ_Grid_Resource_Management_CFP.pdf

Thanks
Raj
------------------------------------------------------------------
Raj, can you help post this CFP in the Grid Computing Info Centre ?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email.
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Call For Papers: Special Issue on Grid Resource Management
in the IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE Systems Council.

Submission deadline: September 1, 2007

Send to:  G_negotiation@...

Details: visit
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~bsim/ISJ_Grid_Resource_Management_CFP.pdf

Dear All:

On behalf of the TCSC, I am pleased to announce the availability of
Travel assistantship for participation in:
    SC06: International Conference for High Performance Computing,
     Networking, Storage, and Analysis
      Tampa, FL, November 11th-17th, 2006

For details on who is eligible and how to make a request, please see:
    http://grid.cs.binghamton.edu/sc06/studentAwards.html

Please note: In addition to students, Postdocs who completed their Ph.D.
in the last one year are also eligible to apply for this scholarship.

Please share this message with your colleagues/students who might
benefit from this.

Best wishes
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); +61-0402102656 (mobile)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------
  International Workshop on Agent based Grid Computing - AGC2007
                             at
7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
                        (CCGrid 2007)
                Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14-17, 2007

          http://recerca.ac.upc.edu/conferencies/AGC2007/
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DESCRIPTION

Grid Computing is an active research area which promises to provide
a flexible infrastructure for complex, dynamic and distributed
resource sharing and sophisticated problem solving environments.
The Grid is not only a low level infrastructure for supporting
computation, but can also facilitate and enable information and
knowledge sharing at the higher semantic levels, to support
knowledge integration and dissemination.
As grid infrastructures mature and its complexity increases,
deciding which services to use, where the data resides for a
particular application domain, how to migrate the data to the point
of computation (or vice versa), and performance rates required to
maintain a particular application "behaviour" become a significant
challenge. There are still issues to be tackled such as:
semantically enhanced service descriptions and specification of
resources, autonomy, dynamic service composition, collaboration,
self-organisation and learning, intelligence and adaptability.
Some f these research areas have already been addressed within the
multi-agent systems community. Agent and multi-agent technologies
provide a promising approach to make Grid technologies smarter, more
flexible, and adaptable. However, Grid computing environments and
applications, with their inherent distribution, heterogeneity and
multi-institutional setups, impose new challenges to agent-based
approaches. Proposed solutions must be able to scale, be (self)
organised from a diversity of agents with different roles and
policies into dynamic Virtual Organizations (VOs), adapt to policies
in place on a given VO, and be able to change roles or migrate
between VOs to adapt to changing conditions and requirements. All of
this while maintaining stringent levels of performance.
Therefore agents could play an important role in Grid Computing, and
Grid Computing can offer useful test-beds for investigating Agent
related technologies. The aim of this workshop is to bring together
infrastructure developers, applications developers, and researchers
to inspire and encourage collaboration between these two
communities.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are encouraged (but not restricted) to submit in the
following areas:
- Agent frameworks and infrastructure to support the Grid
- Performance analysis/modelling of multi-agent based grid
applications and infrastructures
- Integrating Peer-2-Peer and mobile infrastructure with multi-agent
based grid systems for pervasive gird environments
- Software engineering methodologies and tools to support the
development of multi-agent based gird systems
- Support for managing and establishing virtual organizations using
agents
- Supporting service discovery, service composition and service
management using agent-based approaches
- Integrating ontologies with Grid Services description for service
discovery, composition and management
- Agent based tools for scientific problem solving (ontologies,
service composition, application monitoring)
- Agent-based support  for high performance computing (load
balancing, process scheduling, process migration, application
optimization, communication optimization)
- Agent-based autonomic systems
- Agent-based monitoring, performance prediction and workload
characterisation
- Data migration and management via agents
- Grid markets mechanisms and agent-based computational economics
- Agent application in grid simulation environments
- Empirical results using agent-based simulation environments
- Environment description and metric definitions for Grid
simulations
- Knowledge  generation and processing in complex decision
situations using autonomous agents
- Alternative approaches for managing Grid systems (such as nature-
inspired approaches)

Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly
welcomed.


The workshop is based on six similar events that have been organised
over the last few years.

Five of these have been organised alongside CCGrid conferences in
the past:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/agc2006
http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/ccgrid/
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agent-grid-2003/
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agent-grid-2002/
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agent-grid/

and one at last year Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
conference:
http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/sgt05/


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should submit papers of not more than 6 pages of double
column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch
pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (see
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html for
instructions).
- All papers must be original work authorized to be released.
- No submission of material that has been previously published.
- Papers must be written in English language.
Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will
print on a PostScript printer. Please do not embed specialist fonts
(such as Asian fonts) in the PDF. Hard copies should be sent only if
electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register to the
conference and workshop and present the paper.

In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract, with the
following information: title of paper; names and affiliations of
authors; name, email, snail mail, phone number, and fax number of
primary contact. The same information should be included on the
first page of submitted papers.

Please visit the workshop's web page for more details on the
submission procedure.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. The
papers are intended to be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers  8 December 2006
Notification of acceptance 15 January 2007
Camera ready version 	 5 February 2007 (hard deadline)


WORKSHOP CHAIRS/ORGANISERS

Pablo Chacin
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
UPC Campus Nord, Despatx D6-212
Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona,
Spain
Email: pchacin@...
Tel: +34 (0) 93 4011055
Fax: +34 (0) 93 4017055

Liviu Joita
Cardiff University,
School of Computer Science and Welsh e-Science Centre
Queen's Buildings
5 The Parade, Roath
Cardiff CF24 3AA
UK
Email: L.Joita@...
Tel: +44 (0) 29 20874000 Extension No.: 77399
Fax: +44 (0) 29 20874598


STEERING COMMITTEE

Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Daniel Veit, University of Karlsruhe, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE  (PRELIMINARY)

Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Felix Freitag, University of Catalonia, Spain
Gianfranco Giulioni, Universita Politecnica delle Marche Ancona,
Italy
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Dirk Neumann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Giselher Pankratz, The FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany
Line Catherine Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Fehti Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Simon Chong-Wee See, Sun Microsystem Inc., Singapore
Jan Staellaert, University of Connecticut, USA
York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Niranjan Suri, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition – IHMC, USA
Floriano Zini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy

Dear All,

Here are some news items:

1. The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne has recently
released version 3.0 of Grid Resource Broker/Scheduler. For details,
please see attached release notes. If you need any other details, please
let me know.

2. Recently many young researchers have joined this mailing list. I this
regarding I am please share news on the formation of a "Young
Researchers Forum" within the IEEE Technical Committee for Scalable
Computing. For more details, please see:
     http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young
It provides many useful pointers that can help in your research.

Raj

The Gridbus Project to Release Grid Service Broker (v.3.0) Software
30 August 2006
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The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia is pleased to
release
a new version of Grid Service Broker that works with WSRF-compliant Grid
resources.
with version 3.0, the broker can also be hosted as a remote web service, which
is compliant
with the WSRF standard. The broker primarily mediates user access to distributed
"autonomous"
grid resources by (a) discovering suitable data sources for a given analysis
scenario, (b) suitable computational resources, (c) optimally mapping analysis
jobs to resources, (d) deploying and monitoring job execution on selected
resources, (e) accessing data from local or remote data source during job
execution and (f) collating and presenting results. The broker provides (a)
a declarative and dynamic parametric programming model and (b) a rich set of
Java APIs for creating grid applications. It also allows programmers to create a
user-level scheduler and middleware plugins that can replace default
Computational and Data
Grid scheduling algorithms that support service price-based resource allocation.

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What's New:
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- WSRF Compliant multi-user multi-application Grid Brokering service
  (enables clients to use a 'remotely hosted' Grid brokering service)
- Broker calling hosted applications (simple web-services)
- Support for GGF - JSDL standard (for single, non-parametric jobs)
- Gridbus Broker Workbench GUI, for easier composition, initialisation,
   monitoring and management of grid applications
- New service oriented modular design to allow vast improvements in
   scalability, reliability and robust failure management
- Enhanced flexibility, usability and adaptability
- Improved stability for all middleware
- Improvements in data-aware scheduling
- Various bug fixes

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Base Technologies:
--------------------

The Gridbus Broker v3.0 supports/uses the following middleware:
Globus 2.4.x, Globus 4.0
Alchemi 1.0
OpenPBS 2.3,
SGE,
NWS 2.8,
SRB(Storage Resource Broker) 3.x

The Gridbus Broker v3.0 can utilise a resource via SSH for submitting
  and executing grid jobs on:
OpenPBS 2.3,
SGE,
Fork (on Unix-like OSes)

In addition, the Broker can make calls to simple webservices, to leverage hosted
applications.


Download information:
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The broker source code,binaries, documentation and manual can be
downloaded from http://www.gridbus.org/broker/

Contact Information:
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For further details about the Gridbus broker and/or the Gridbus project
please contact:
   - Dr. Rajkumar Buyya (raj@...) - append @csse.unimelb.edu.au
   - Srikumar Venugopal (srikumar@...)
   - Krishna Nadiminti (kna@...)
   - Hussein Gibbins (hag@...)
   - Xingchen Chu (xchu@...)

Licenses and Disclaimer:
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The Gridbus broker and the GUI is distributed under the GNU General Public
License (GPL) (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt).
Other libraries included in the distribution are distributed under their
own respective licenses which are also included.

This product includes software developed by and/or derived from the Globus
project (http://www.globus.org/). This product includes dom4j libraries
(http://www.dom4j.org).  Other licenses can be found in the licenses
directory of the Gridbus Broker v3.0 distribution.

Acknowledgments:
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The Gridbus Broker is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and
Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project is
partially supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project
grant, and the University of Melbourne. We are grateful to, and sincerely thank
all the people who contributed to the Gridbus Broker project. For further
information on the Gridbus Project, please visit  - http://www.gridbus.org/
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Dear colleagues,

Apologies for multiple copies.

Grid 2006 is the follow-up of the workshop that was usually held at SCxy.
Benefit of reductions if you register both for Grid 2006 and Cluster 2006.

Deadline for early registration: September 4th.
http://www.grid2006.org/Registration.htm

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7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2006)
Barcelona, 28-29 September
http://www.grid2006.org

The Grid conference series is an anual international meeting that brings
together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users
involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as
both the premier conference presenting best Grid research and a forum where
new concepts can be introduced and explored.

For this, our seventh event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference
and this year we will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference.
The Grid 2006 Conference features keynote talks, panel, peer reviewed papers
presentations, and posters.

The program starts with a keynote from Malcolm Atkinson (Director of National
E-Science Centre, UK) on E-Science foundations. Other invited presentations
will be given by Wolfgang Boch, from the European Commission, about the EU Grid
research, and by our sponsors CoreGRID and IBM (LA Grid project). We foresee an
exciting panel led by Mark Linesch (Chair, Open Grid Forum=Global Grid
Forum+Enterprise Grid Alliance) about the perspectives of Grid standards.

The Grid 2006 conference received papers from 33 countries around the world.
The conference sessions features 38 excellent papers, which are competitively
selected  (20% acceptance rate). They are organised into the following sessions:
Grid Workflow, Data Services and Scheduling, Data Resource Allocation,
Metadata, Grid Security, Data Streaming, Messaging and Performance.

Please visit the conference website for more details on the program!

Grid 2006 has been labelled a CoreGRID event.

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Important Dates:
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September 4     Early registratin deadline
September 28-29  Conference

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Julita Corbalan (juli@...)
Computer Architecture Department
Campus Nord. C6203.
Fax: +34 401 70 55

Seems the VMware link is down. The details about the appliance are
also available through my lab's website

http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~ipop/grid_appliance/

However the voting needs to be done at VMware once the link comes back
up

www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/296

--Abhishek

Hi All,

I need some community support here. I have developed a product called
Grid-Appliance and we are in the final round of the VMware world-wide
challenge to develop the best computing appliance in the industry. If
you can please vote in favor of us. It will take just 5 minutes of
your time. The details are here:

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/296

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Abhishek

Dear All,

We have recently released Gridscape II software, which is a Customisable
and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal Integrated with Google Maps. Brief
details on the software are given below. The software can be downloaded
from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/gridscape

Thanks
Raj
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Gridscape II: A Customisable and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal and
its Integration with Google Maps

Grid computing has emerged as an effective means of facilitating the
sharing of distributed heterogeneous resources, enabling collaboration
in large scale environments. However, the nature of Grid systems,
coupled with the overabundance and fragmentation of information, makes
it difficult to monitor resources, services, and computations in order
to plan and make decisions.

The GRIDS Lab and the Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne
are pleased to release the Gridscape II software which manages the
gathering of information from arbitrary, heterogeneous and distributed
sources and presents them together seamlessly within a single
interface. It also leverages the Google Maps API in order to provide a
highly interactive user interface. Gridscape II is simple and easy to
use, providing a solution to those users who don't wish to invest
heavily in developing their own monitoring portal from scratch, and
also for those users who want something that is easy to customise and
extend for their specific needs.

Gridscape aims at providing a high-level, user-friendly and highly
customisable portal interface in order to present the status of Grid
resources. It interacts with existing technology so that no additional
installation or configuration of Grid resources is required. Major
improvements over the previous implementation of Gridscape are that it
supports the integration of multiple arbitrary information sources
through an extensible design; it provides a simple customisation
mechanism to allow it to be enhanced to meet the specific needs of
each individual Grid portal. Other improvements are integration with
Google Maps, simplified portal administration and the use of
portlet-based web components which means it can be plugged into other
Grid portals to compliment them.

The key features of Gridscape II are the following:
      * It manages diverse forms of resource information from various
        types of information sources;
      * It provides a simple framework for introducing new information
        service types;
      * It provides simple portal management and administration;
      * It provides a clear and intuitive presentation of resource
        information in an interactive and dynamic portal
        via Google Maps;
      * It has a flexible design and implementation such that core
        components can be reused in building new components,
        presentation of information can be easily changed and a high
       level of portability and accessibility (from the web browser
       perspective) can be provided.

Gridscape II currently comes with implementations for MDS2 (Globus 2)
and MDS4 (Globus 4) information service types.

The developers of Gridscape II are: Hussein Gibbins and Rajkumar Buyya
from the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at
the University of Melbourne, Australia.

For further information or to download the "open source" Gridscape II
software, please visit:
         Gridbus Project Web page: http://www.gridbus.org/
         Gridscape II webpage:   http://www.gridbus.org/gridscape
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Dear All:

I would like to bring to your attention two things:

1. A report from Gridwise Technologies (pls see their message below):
   They have written a nice Technical Report on Metaschedulers for Global
Grids. You can download it from their website:
    http://www.gridwisetech.com/metaschedulers

2. The Gridbus Project has recently published a Technical Report on:
    Utility Computing and Global Grids (which will be published in
Handbook of Computer Networks publishing by Wiley within a year). Early
version of this can be downloaded from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/reports/HandbookCN_Utility_Grids.pdf
your can also access from: http://www.gridbus.org/tech_reports.html

Thanks
Raj

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GridwiseTech Report
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:48:00 +0200
From: olaf bujak@... <olaf.bujak@...>
Reply-To: olaf.bujak@...
Organisation: GridwiseTech
To: raj@...
CC: Bernadeta Raczkiewicz <bernadeta.raczkiewicz@...>

Dear Rajkumar,

We have just released a market overview of metaschedulers (brokers)
currently available on the market. The report has been written from a
vendor-independent perspective and offers an unbiased discussion of the
solutions.

We believe you might be interested in this report. Also, we would be
obliged if you could mention it on your http://gridcomputing.com/
website or using other your channels, so that the readers interested in
the topic could find the report as well.

The report is free and can be downloaded from our website
(www.gridwisetech.com/metaschedulers). Please take a look on the press
release note attached to this mail. Do not hesitate to publish it and
use some excerpts.

We're waiting for you comments and looking for cooperation.
--
Olaf Bujak                            olaf.bujak@...
Business Development and Strategy
GridwiseTech                           tel./fax: +48 12 294 71 20

Grid consulting, development and training    www.gridwisetech.com




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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); +61-0402102656 (mobile)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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