[ieeetcsc-discuss] CCGrid 2007: Call for Participation

[Rajkumar Buyya]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 
[CCGrid 2007]
May 14-17, 2007
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

[See http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/ for full details]

Sponsored by IEEE (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing), CCGrid 
has become a premium conference of truly international coverage, 
bringing together researchers and practitioners, and enabling them to 
share their insight, results, and experiences in the multi-faceted areas 
of Grid and Cluster computing.  After Australia, Germany, Japan, United 
States of America, United Kingdom, and Singapore, CCGrid comes to 
Brazil.  This year's conference will be held in beautiful Rio de 
Janeiro, on May 14-17, 2007.

The conference includes 5 tutorials by leading experts in the field, 7 
workshops, 2 keynote speeches, an industrial track with 7 of the largest 
computer companies in the world, and a very strong technical program 
containing 72 papers (from the 218 submitted).

As we hope you are going to see firsthand, the talks and demos presented 
at the conference show the greater level of maturity Grids and Clusters 
have achieved in the last few years.  Cluster and Grid Computing started 
with the promise to deliver unprecedent levels of parallelism to 
high-performance applications.  Subsequently, this goal has evolved to 
support on-demand access and composition of any computational service, 
provided by multiple independent sources.  While the work in the initial 
CCGrid conferences focused on the more basic computational 
infrastructure needed to realize this vision, we now see a greater 
number of application papers and also stronger industry interest and 
involvement.  Grids are integrating the world's computational 
capability, enabling truly amazing and innovative applications to come 
to life.  And Clusters remain evolving rapidly to keep up with their 
role of super-servers in the highly connected Grid ecosystem.

Registration can be made on-line at the conference site 
[http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/registration.php].  Note also that there are 2 
special programs that ease student participation.  Students worldwide 
are invited to apply to the IEEE-TCSC CCGrid'2007 Student Travel 
Scholarship.  And thanks to the considerable support from our local 
sponsors, we proud to offer students from Latin American countries, not 
presenting papers, a significantly reduced registration rate of USD80, 
which also allows attending one tutorial by USD40.

We hope you can attend the conference, and enjoy our strong technical 
program and your stay in Rio de Janeiro.  Let us just remind you to make 
your travel arrangements early, as entering Brazil may require a visa, 
depending on your citizenship [http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/travel.php].
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