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["Greg Wood" <>]

Global Grid Forum (Global GF, www.globalgridforum.org) to hold
GGF-2 from July 15-18, 2001 in Washington, DC.

GGF-2 is the second international Global GF workshop and the seventh in a
series of workshops aimed at designing, building, and using grids and grid
technologies.  Global GF has emerged as the central gathering point for
researchers and practitioners who are pioneering the next generation of
Internet applications, ranging from directory services to computational
grids to portals to advanced collaborative environments.

During the past year, major application-focused Grid initiatives have been
funded by the Department of Energy, NASA, the National Science Foundation,
and other Federal agencies.  These initiatives, nearly all of which involve
researchers from Internet2 member institutions, are building distributed
systems--or "Grids"--that will rely heavily on Internet2 backbone networks
and
connected campus networks.  Of particular interest to the Internet2
community will be a special BOF to be held on Monday, July 16 on the state
of research networks and the network requirements of grids.

GGF-2 follows our first international workshop, GGF-1, where 375
participants from 200 organizations and 29 countries met in Amsterdam in
March 2001.  Our agenda includes 4 parallel working group tracks, a strong
tutorial track, and an excellent set of "updates" presentations.  A
preliminary agenda is available at:
        http://www.gridforum.org/Meetings/GGF2/prelim-agenda.htm

Our keynote speaker will be Edward Jung, CEO and CTO of OpenDesign, Inc.,
Co-Founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Chief Software Architect at
Microsoft.

To find out more about GGF-2 and about Global Grid Forum, and to register
for GGF-2, go to www.globalgridforum.org.

Thanks and Best Regards-
Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory
Chair, Global Grid Forum

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Subject: AMPATH Workshop Annoucement
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:20:18 -0400
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---------- Announcement ----------
FIU AMPATH Workshop to Identify Areas of Scientific Collaboration between
the US and the AMPATH Service Area
August 15-17, 2001
Florida International University Kovens Conference Center at Biscayne Bay
Campus
(wireless and video conferencing capabilities will be available)
Miami, Florida
PLEASE REGISTER NOW ON THE AMPATH WORKSHOP WEBSITE
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/events.htm
Sponsored by the Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR)
Division / CISE Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
The main objective of the workshop is to discover the benefits of utilizing
a high-performance research and education network, known as AmericasPATH
(AMPATH).
AMPATH is a project of Florida International University in collaboration
with Global Crossing, in support of scientific research applications that
either involve collaboration between U.S. and multi-national researchers or
wholly run U.S. projects.  The AMPATH service area includes South and
Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean.  We plan to connect National
Research Networks in the service area to Research and Education networks in
the US and beyond via the Internet2 Abilene network and the STAR TAP.
AMPATH's goal is to facilitate research collaboration between the service
area and the rest of the world to further advance U.S. science and
education.
Confirmed speakers at the workshop include prominent research scientists
from the US and the AMPATH service area who will discuss their collaborative
projects.  Participants include research and education professionals, US and
international funding agency representation, telecommunications industry
vendors, national research network management and network engineers.  Please
visit the website for a list of speakers, participants  and agenda
information.
We are on a very short timeline, so your immediate registration on the
AMPATH website at http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/events.htm would be appreciated
to show support for the workshop.  The Loews Miami Beach Hotel has been
selected as the workshop hotel.  Hotel group rate registration will open
soon and will be announced to all registered participants via mailing lists
and on the web site.  Please wait for the announcement before trying to
reserve your hotel room so you can take advantage of the attractive group
rate being offered.
Thank You!
Heidi Alvarez
Assistant Director, AMPATH
Network Engineering & Telecommunications
Florida International University
www.ampath.fiu.edu
(305) 348-2006


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Subject: AMPATH Connects REUNA to Internet2
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:40:40 -0400
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The activation of the AMPATH PoP in Miami, Florida on June 19, 2001, marks a
milestone in the AMPATH project that has been planned for over a year. The
AMPATH network is now connected to Internet2's Abilene network. REUNA, the
National Research Network of Chile and the first participant in the AMPATH
project, is connected to AMPATH and peering with Abilene.  Services going
through AMPATH to REUNA include unicast and multicast peering.
On October 16, 2000 REUNA and Florida International University (FIU) signed
a Memorandum of Understanding to connect Chile to the AmericasPATH (AMPATH)
project.  AMPATH is a collaborative project between FIU and Global Crossing.
Using Global Crossing's terrestrial and submarine optical-fiber network,
AMPATH will interconnect the Research and Education (R&E) networks in South
and Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico (the Service Area) to US and
non-US R&E networks via Internet2's Abilene network and the STAR TAP.
Chile has a small, but very active scientific community that has placed a
priority on integrating into the worldwide scientific community by
electronic means, according to REUNA (Red Universitaria Nacional) executive
director Florencio Utreras. REUNA  is a private non-profit corporation
formed by nineteen universities and the National Commission of Scientific
and Technological Investigation (CONICYT). Florida International University
welcomes REUNA to the AMPATH project.
The AMPATH PoP will move to its home in Terremark's NAP of the Americas
later this year.  Terremark is the owner and operator of the NAP of the
Americas, the 5th tier-one NAP in the United States, located in downtown
Miami.  The move will be done in coordination with Global Crossing, the
carrier that donated 10 DS3s (45 Mbps) of bandwidth on their submarine and
terrestrial network to enable the AMPATH project.  One of those DS3s is
being used by REUNA.
The AMPATH PoP currently consists of a GSR 12012 router donated by Cisco
Systems, a CBX-500 ATM switch donated by Lucent Technologies, and a Juniper
Networks M10 router. The Global NOC at Indiana University provides network
monitoring and back-up engineering services in coordination with FIU's
network engineering staff.
http://www.ampath.fiu.edu/news_AMPATH_REUNA_Operational.htm

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