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Sites Across the World Plan SC Global Participationreleased May 1, 2001
Contacts Project will link Denver conference with the top and bottom of the world and points in betweenARGONNE, IL — At least 35 sites, including 14 locations outside the U.S., will participate in SC Global, the first global technical conference using Grid technologies to link groups of people worldwide. SC Global will be one of the premier events of SC2001, the annual high-performance computing and networking conference to be held Nov. 10 - 16 in Denver. Sites that will participate in SC Global, called SC Global Constellation sites, span six continents and range from the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Faribanks, AK, to the NSF Polar Research Center at the opposite end of the globe in Antarctica. Sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and an additional 21 sites in the U.S. also plan to participate in SC Global. Constellation sites will have the chance to participate remotely in activities on the SC show floor, and many will also offer content to the conference—from workshops on computing and networking issues, to interactive art exhibits and cultural exchanges. In addition, a variety of panels and birds-of-a-feather sessions will bring together participants from around the world. SC Global will use the Access Grid (http://www.accessgrid.org/), a system that links people over high-speed networks for virtual meetings and other collaborative sessions. Developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, the Access Grid is being deployed by the National Computational Science Alliance. A crew from Argonne National Laboratory will operate an Access Grid node on the SC2001 exhibit floor. "SC Global will make SC2001 the first supercomputing conference in which people can be active participants whether they are in the Denver Convention Center or thousands of miles away at a Constellation Site," said Ian Foster, senior scientist at Argonne, professor of computer science at the University of Chicago, and head of the SC Global project. "We hope to show people the potential of Grid technologies as a means of enabling international scientific communication and collaboration. It will be a glimpse at a form of interaction that will become commonplace as the 21st century progresses." Constellation sites are currently busy installing the equipment needed to participate in SC Global and taking part in practice runs. Sites that have confirmed their participation are:
Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center, Albuquerque, NM For more information on SC Global see http://www.scglobal.org/. For more on SC2001, see http://www.sc2001.org/.
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