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Second Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments
(Deadline Extension)
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Deadlines for abstract submission:
Feb 1, 2002

Notification of acceptance:
March 1, 2002

Final version of position statement due:
April 2, 2002

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

To be held at the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing 
and the Grid (CCGrid 2002) in Berlin, 21-24 May 2002

http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/fl/wace/summer2002/index-wace2002.htm

The WACE series addresses research, technological and social issues of 
developing persistent collaboration infrastructure to address the needs 
of emerging scientific communities. Examples of emerging scientific 
communities include:

- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Nanoscience and Molecular Technology
- Wide Area Environmental Sensing
- Biomedical Imaging and Simulation

The goal of the workshops is to provide an open technical forum to 
promote the discussion of high-end high-value solutions to the problem 
of supporting distributed scientific collaboration. Base line 
assumptions about the evolution of future computing technologies (e.g. 
networking, computing, storage, and displays) useful for collaboration 
environments should be taken into account in developing position papers. 
The workshops intend to look at future generation systems and to explore 
new research directions in advanced collaborative environments.

Abstracts (approx. 500-word) for position statements are being sought 
for this workshop. Abstracts should be sent via email and may be either 
in plain-text or PDF. Final versions of position statements should be no 
more than 2 pages in length.

Please email abstracts to: 


Other links:
CCGrid 2002 : http://www.ccgrid.org/ccgrid2002/

Contact:
Mary Fritsch 
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December 5, 2001

Contact: Paul Francuch
(312) 996-3457; 



THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT FOR "STARLIGHT"

The new "Science Technology And Research Light-Illuminated Gigabit 
High-performance Transit" is a constellation of words that condense nicely 
into the acronym "StarLight."

An international high-speed optical fiber network connection point -- 
developed and operated in partnership by the University of Illinois at 
Chicago, Northwestern University and the Argonne National Laboratory -- 
StarLight links a global network of research computers via advanced fiber 
optic equipment.  It is both a stable high-speed link for advanced 
scientific work and provides a site for public and private information 
technology clients to test hardware for reliability, much as a speedway is 
used to test new cars.

StarLight provides a communication intersection for the "information super 
highway"as no other.  As UIC computer science professor and StarLight 
co-creator Tom DeFanti put it: "Think of a two-lane road passing by your 
house as the equivalent of, say, a DSL or cable modem line.  StarLight 
supports networking equivalent to a 10,000-lane highway."

The Netherlands' national research and education computer network SURFnet 
has signed up to be the fastest customer to connected to the Chicago-based 
facility, moving data at the blazing speed of 2.5 giga (billion) bits a 
second.  "We're working to get it up to 10 gigabits -- and beyond," said 
DeFanti.  The higher speeds will be reached as early as next spring.

With 10 gigabit links expected to Canada, Asia and other European sites 
within the next year, StarLight promises to support real-time, multi-site 
virtual reality presentations, advanced interactive data mining, remote 
control of large-scale telescopes and microscopes and other computing 
advances that will let the international scientific research community 
collaborate over the challenging problems of our time.

StarLight evolved from an earlier broadband facility called "STAR TAP" 
(Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point) developed by UIC 
and Argonne researchers.  STAR TAP, with a maximum bandwidth speed of 622 
megabits a second, continues to serve the needs of researchers worldwide 
who cannot yet get the extra data flow offered by StarLight.

Joe Mambretti directs the International Center for Advanced Internet 
Research at Northwestern University.  He says the world's advanced research 
community is very enthusiastic about StarLight. "The group of us developing 
StarLight has been at the forefront of advanced networking for the last 15 
years. Our community develops advanced applications requiring these 
high-performance networking technologies. There's no end to this trend in 
sight," Mambretti said.

StarLight will also host connections to the world's most-advanced 
multi-site supercomputing system, called TeraGrid, scheduled to begin 
operation in mid-2002.  It also connects with the State of Illinois-funded 
optical research network called I-WIRE.

StarLight's physical connection and routing point is at Northwestern 
University's downtown Chicago campus.  The high-tech facility offers ample 
space for networking and computing equipment expansion -- a rare and 
valuable feature offered to researchers worldwide.

Development funding for StarLight comes from the U.S. National Science 
Foundation and international partner research networks.  Argonne National 
Laboratory's Math and Computer Science Division provides network design and 
engineering, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.

For more information about StarLight, see http://www.startap.net/starlight

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