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GGF9 (Chicago) 5-8 October 2003
Advance registration ends *this Friday* - September 26. The Hotel
Deadline for Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers is also *this Friday* -
September 26. Registration and Lodging information:
http://www.globalgridforum.org/Meetings/ggf9/reg.htm

There are currently 66 WG/RG/BOF scheduled sessions and 4 Workshops.
View http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/ggf9/schedule.htm and click on
download schedule at a glance.

Workshops include:
         * Semantic Grid Workshop
         * P2P and Grids: Synergies and Opportunities Workshop
         * Life Sciences Grid Workshop
         * Designing and Building Grid Services Workshop

Approved BOF's For GGF9 include:
         * Astronomical Grid Community-RG
         * Grid Support for Ubiquitous Computing-RG
         * Grid Federations
         * Workflow Management-RG
         * Business Process Grid-WG
         * Metadata Management Services Architecture-WG
         * Grid API-WG
         * Configuration Description, Deployment, and Lifecycle
           Management-WG

Contact:
Clare Spartz
Director of Marketing and Membership
Global Grid Forum
work: +1.630.252.0924


[From http://www.ggf.org/L_About/about.htm :
The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of 5000+ 
individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed 
computing, or "grid" technologies.  GGF's primary objective is to 
promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of 
Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of 
"best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and 
implementation guidelines.]


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Subject: News Release: PSC Will Help Bring High-Speed Networking to Households
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 24, 2003

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Will Help Bring High-Speed Networking 
to Households

PITTSBURGH -- The National Science Foundation has awarded $7.5 million 
to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and seven other institutions to 
bring high-speed Internet connections to American homes. The award, 
through NSF's Information Technology Research program, was announced 
Sept. 17.

PSC will contribute networking experts and infrastructure to help 
develop a testbed for a future, high-speed Internet.

The project, tentatively dubbed "100 x 100," will wire 100 households 
with 100 megabit per second (Mbps) Internet connections -- about 100 
times faster than currently available broadband connections -- with the 
ultimate goal of upgrading millions of households within the next few 
years.  Together with Carnegie Mellon University, Fraser Research, Rice 
University, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford 
University, Internet2 and ATT Research, PSC will help design and 
implement testbed networks in Pittsburgh, Pa., Houston, Texas and 
Princeton, NJ and a national network to link the testbeds.

"The Internet wasn't designed with high-speed, home access in mind," 
said PSC network engineer Matt Mathis, who will help design the 
architecture of the new networks. "For 100 Mbps to every home to work, 
we have to rethink the fundamental design of the network." Mathis, an 
expert on network tuning, will work on network protocols to ensure that 
advanced applications, such as video on demand, meet the expectations 
of high-speed, home users.

PSC will also contribute resources at the Pittsburgh GigaPoP to the 
effort. The GigaPoP -- a high-speed network crossroads -- manages 
fiber-optic cable connections to Internet backbones and Abilene, an 
exclusive, high-speed research network. These high-bandwidth 
connections will provide access to resources such as digital libraries 
and the Visible Human database -- resources that require high-speed 
connections and that will demonstrate the potential of 100 Mbps to the 
home.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie 
Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with the 
Westinghouse Electric Company. It was established in 1986 and is 
supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
and private industry.

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CONTACT:
Sean Fulton
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
412-268-7141


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