Subject: [CFP] Computing Portals meeting at ISCOPE99, Dec.7

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:38:44 -0600

Please go to http://www.computingportals.org to get an HTML version of
this announcement. We appologize if you have seen this announcment
before.

            Call for Participation and Announcement

                       December 7, 1999

                Computing Portals Meeting

                        Together with 

          Computing Portals Working Group (Datorr),
                     Java Grande Forum, and
The 3rd International Symposium on Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel
                        Environments

   Crowne Plaza Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA

   http://www.computingportals.org and http://www.acl.lanl.gov/iscope99/

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Workshop Information

As part of the ISCOPE conference activities, we like to announce a
meeting of the
Computing Portals working group. This group has been previously active
under the name
Datorr. Computing Portals is a collaborative effort between different
Computer Science
projects to enable desktop access to remote resources including
supercomputers,
networks of workstations, smart instruments, data resources, and more.

We would like to solicit suggestions for presentations to be given
during the morning
session of the meeting.

Participants are encouraged to submit a short paper or a pointer to a
relevant online
paper. If the paper is substantial, has not been previously published,
and passes the review process, the opportunity exists to publish it in
the Journal Concurency: Practice and Experience.

The main emphasis of the meeting will be working group discussions.

Suggestions for topics include (but are not limited to): 

       Portal in Industrial applications and environments, 

       Portals based on Jini technology, 

       Benefit of XML for the development of Portals

       Gridforum activities and interactions 

Please send suggestions to [email-masked], or stop by the Argonne
National
Laboratory booth at SC99 to reach Gregor vonLaszewski.

While this meeting is open to the public, advance registration is
strongly encouraged to reserve necessary meeting space. To register,
please e-mail the following information to ([email-masked]): 

 Name:             
 e-mail:       
 Institution:     
 Address: 

 Phone:      
 Fax:
 Suggestions:

Travel information

The travel information can be found at the ISCOPE web site: ISCOPE
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/iscope99/ 

Alternative hotel suggestions will be posted when available. 

Future Meetings

     1.Meeting at ISCOPE, 
     2.Meeting at JavaGrande 2000, around the 3-4th June 2000time. Exact
time and
       location will be announced at ISCOPE.

AGENDA(Subject to Change)

We will make changes to the agenda published on the web as soon as they
are available.

 Duration
           Topic
 Start
 8:30am
           PART I: Introduction20 minutes
           Datorr, Computing Portals, and Science Portals30 minutes
           Science Portals, Geoffrey C. Fox
  
           PART II: Talks by Industry and Researchers
 30-40
 minutes
           iPlanet, Sun Microsystems, TBD
  
           Other taks to be determined
  
           Lunch
  
           PART II: Working groups
 Overlapping
 Working
 Groups
           Group A: Computing Portal Frontends.

           This might include discussions about the Computing Portals
previous
           working groups, as well as, some proposals that are submitted
to the
           Gridforum in the area of the backend. 
           Group B: Industrial Portals
           This might include discussions on how existing technology can
be used
           and enhance Computing Portals in existing/future industrial
           applications and frameworks
  
           Other groups upon suggestion by the community
  
           PART III: Summary 

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Gregor von Laszewski
Argonne National LAboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave
Argonne, IL 60439
[email-masked]
(630) 252 0472