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Fifth Grid Forum Convenes in October

released September 27, 2000

Sun Microsystems and Sun Labs will host the 5th Grid Forum workshop (GF5) October 15-18 at the Bell Atlantic Learning Center in Marlborough, MA. Other sponsors of GF5 are Boeing, NASA, Argonne National Laboratory, NCSA, and the University of Virginia.

Grid Forum is a community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies. Grid Forum focuses on promoting and developing grid technologies and applications by developing and documenting "best practices," implementation guidelines, and standards, with an emphasis on rough consensus and running code.

The workshop convenes three times a year and is organized into nine working groups, focusing on such areas as directory services, security, scheduling, and grid user services.

For more information, including registration information, visit http://www.gridforum.org/.

 

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