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GridChem Partners Announce Access Grid Event

Access News Release
October 4, 2005  
 
For information contact:
Elaine Landwehr
GridChem Access Grid Event Coordinator
614-292-0890
 
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The GridChem partners announced today their
upcoming Access Grid (AG) event, GridChem: An Application Oriented
Computational Grid, to be held on October 10, 2005, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
EST, at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) in Columbus.  
 
With the computational chemistry community’s growing demand for grid
computing, the GridChem project is responding to the needs of these
researchers by enhancing the cyber-infrastructure. An easy-to-use
interface now lowers the usage barrier far beyond anything imagined to
date, and provides that interface to the entire community
(www.gridchem.org). The
environment consists of a three-tiered architecture including a client,
grid middleware server, and distributed high-end computational
resources.
 
“With this architecture we have created an environment that will
revolutionize grid computing for computational chemists,” said John
Connolly, GridChem principal investigator.  “We are pleased to have
the opportunity to showcase the Computational Chemistry Grid (CCG) during
our Access Grid event, as well as in our various activities at
Supercomputing 2005 (SC05).  We invite researchers from all
disciplines to see how CCG makes grid computing more accessible.” 
 
General topics for the workshop include:
- Project overview
- Interface demonstration 
- Back-end features
- Allocations & support
 
For detailed information about the event, see the general announcement at
www.gridchem.org under
announcements.
 
In addition to the AG event on October 10, GridChem will host a “Birds of
a Feather” meeting on November 15, 2005 at 5:15 p.m. and a workshop on
November 18 at 8:30 a.m. at SCI05 in Seattle.  The GridChem partners
with SC booths will display posters and give demonstrations of the
GridChem client. 
 
GridChem partners include the Center for Computational Sciences /
University of Kentucky, Center for Computation and Technology / Louisiana
State University, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
/ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, OSC, and Texas Advanced
Computing Center (TACC) / University of Texas.  The project is
supported by the National Science Foundation NMI Program under Award
#04-38312.

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