This event might be of interest for our group member. With kind regards, Thilo Kielmann Grid-Enabling Legacy Applications and Supporting End Users Workshop (GELA) within the framework of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing HPDC'15 Paris, France June 19-23, 2006 The workshop will present existing solutions for gridifying legacy code applications, and for supporting the development and usage of Grid applications. It will bring together Grid researchers, current and perspective users. Researchers will present the available Grid solutions, while users will demonstrate existing Grid applications and define their requirements towards their Grid applications. The workshop aims to reach user communities, which do not have even basic knowledge in Grid computing presenting both developers' and users' views on the Grid. The goals of the workshop are: " To gather information about existing solutions for gridifying legacy applications, " To present existing high-level Grid user environments, " To identify the key application requirements and scenarios towards the Grid, " To provide a forum for exchanging the ideas between the Grid application users, application developers and Grid developers, " To broaden the Grid community by encouraging new users to use the Grid technologies. The workshop is seeking papers and poster presentations from different areas of Grid computing, especially those concerned with applications. Suggested topics for papers and posters include, but are not limited to, the following: " Gridifying legacy code applications, " High-level Grid user environments, " Application requirements towards to Grid and its infrastructure, " .Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the Grid. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit technical papers up to 10 pages to the workshop web site: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/gemlca/hpdc-gela/submit using the IEEE 8 1/2 x 11 CS format. Appropriate style files can be found at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/Format.pdf. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected. These papers should be written to be self-contained and to provide the technical substance required for the Program Committee to evaluate the paper's contribution. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. PUBLICATION Papers presented at the workshop will appear in the HPDC workshop proceedings CD published by IEEE Computer Society Press and given to all participants at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission: February 13, 2006 Notice of Acceptance: March 06, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: April 08, 2006 Workshop June 20, 2006 -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/