---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1. GGF13 Seoul, Korea Registration 2. GGF13 Hotel Reservations 3. GGF13 Workshops 4. GGF13 Tutorials ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 1. Our lower cost registration period end on March 4 so please take advantage of these lower rates for GGF 13! GGF13 in Seoul, Korea, is being hosted by KISTI and the Grid Forum Korea. Workshops and tutorials begin on March 13 and additional workshops and group sessions will run from 14-16 March. A special ending plenary session on March 16 will wrap up the week's accomplishments and provide a glimpse of what can be expected at the GGF14 in Chicago, June 26-29. 2. GGF13 Hotel Reservations Limited space at the GGF13 rate is available at the conference hotel, the Lotte Hotel in Seoul. Fax your hotel reservation form directly to the Lotte today. More information can be found at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/lodging.htm. 3. Workshops Sunday, March 13 9am-6pm - "Asia Grid Workshop" http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_Asia_Grid_Summit.pdf - "Healthcare Applications on Grids: Moving Healthcare (Applications) onto Grids" organized by Life Science Grid WG Agenda: http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_LSG_Workshop.pdf - "Grid Economy Workshop" Call for Papers http://www.gridforumkorea.org/gecon2005 The 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2005) http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_Call_Grid_Economy_WS.pdf Monday, March 14 10:30am-6:30pm "The Usable Grid Workshop" organized by Application Developers and Users RG http://www.cs.vu.nl/ggf/apps-rg/meetings/ggf13.html Tuesday, March 15 9am-6pm "e-Science Workshop" http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/Documents/GGF13_eScience_Workshop.pdf 4. Tutorials (Sunday, 13 March) More information is available at http://www.ggf.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Tutorials_b.htm Tutorial 1 - OGSA-DAI Developers (Time: 9am-6pm) The UK-based "Open Grid Service Architecture - Data Access and Integration" (OGSA-DAI) project is producing middleware components to access and integrate data through uniform Web Services for Grid environments. This tutorial will provide an introduction to the functional capabilities of data services as seen in the current OGSA-DAI release 5.0. In particular, we will be covering two subjects of importance to developers: the activity framework and the client toolkit. Tutorial 2 - Distributed Resource Management Application API (Time: 9am-1:30pm) DRMAA tutorial will start with a short introduction to distributed and parallel processing. Differences and similarities to OpenMP, explicit threads, MPI, Globus toolkit GRAM, and other remote job submission realizations will be given. The introductory part will be followed with a brief introduction to DRMAA, its motivation and purpose. The more technical part of the presentation will cover DRMAA programming interface and DRMAA job attributes.