------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleague: We (GRIDS Lab @ the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and Osaka University) have submitted a proposal: "Economic and On Demand Brain Activity Analysis on the World-Wide Grid using Nimrod-G and Gridbus Technologies" for the "HPC Challenge" event at the upcoming SC 2002 conference. We just heard that our proposal is one of the six proposals selected out of 19 submissions for demonstration during the HPC Challenge demonstrations. So, we are very excited about this opportunity, but a great challenge is ahead! The demonstration is expected to be : 1) Most Data Intensive 2) Most Geographically Distributed, and 3) Most Heterogeneous. That means, this requirement can be achieved only with the kind support of colleagues like you. Therefore, we request you support and cooperation. If you happen to have your computers (clusters, workstations, etc.) running Globus 2.0 or above, can you please provide us access to them ? If the above request is agreeable to you, can you please provide us access to your machines (running Globus 2.0 or above) by creating an account as follows: --------------------------- 1. Create an account for our use on your machine (Optional Step). (e.g., account_name = "rajkumar" and initial password = "YOU choose it" and please let me know the password you assigned and host/machine address for telnet/ssh.) 2. Authorise us to use your machine by adding following line to Globus grid-mapfile (which is in < globus-deploy >/etc directory): "/O=Grid/O=Globus/OU=cs.mu.oz.au/CN=Rajkumar Buyya" rajkumar "/C=US/O=National Computational Science Alliance/CN=Rajkumar Buyya" rajkumar 3. Please email me your "Hostname" on which you created account! along with you resource info (arch, type of job manager your running fork/some queuing system). -------------------------- Note: If you want to skip Step 1, then you need to replace "rajkumar" by any other account name that has authorization to access your machine. I look forward hearing from your in the near future. Thanks in advance for your help. Best wishes Raj -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rajkumar Buyya Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering The University of Melbourne SEECS Building, Room. 3.38 221 Bouverie St., Carlton Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-8344 9317 (office); +61-3-9571 3629 (home) Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; eFax: +1-801-720-9272 Email: rajkumar@buyya.com | raj@cs.mu.oz.au URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~raj ------------------------------------------------------------------------