APAC - Silver Sponsorship
The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. GGF's primary objectives are to promote and support the development, deployment, and implementation of Grid technologies and applications via the creation and documentation of "best practices" - technical specifications, user experiences, and implementation guidelines.
AIIA is the peak body in Australia for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, AIIA works across many areas to assist the ICT industry to meet its business objectives in corporate and government markets.
GrangeNet (GRid And Next GEneration Network) is a 3-year program that is installing, operating and developing a multi-gigabit network to support grid and advanced communications services. GrangeNet is a testbed for the next generation of services aimed at supporting virtual organisations and user communities and will strengthen Australia’s participation in the international research community.
The members of the joint venture are AARNet, APAC, DSTC, Cisco Australia and PowerTel. Five APAC partners – ac3, ANU, CSIRO, QPSF and VPAC – are participating in the GrangeNet Program. The partners are demonstrating a range of grid services such as distributed computing, collaborative visualisation, cooperative environments, digital libraries and remote instrumentation, that take advantage of broadband networks and advanced computing facilities.
During the initial three years (2002-4), APAC is contributing $150,000 per annum to the GrangeNet Program and GrangeNet is matching these funds. The total funds are supporting two ANU staff located at the National Facility working in the area of large-scale data sets.
At the end of June 2004, the GrangeNet network connected 45 sites at 33 organisations (compared with 36 sites at 25 organisations at the end of 2003). To achieve these connections, GrangeNet peers with AARNet, CeNTIE and regional networks in Perth (WARNO), Melbourne (VRNO), Canberra (ACTRNO), Sydney (Sydney Basin & NSWRNO) and Brisbane (QRNO). The network continues to operate reliably: the GrangeNet NOC report indicates that more than 600Tbytes has been carried and that the network reliability this year has been 99.86%. More than 30Tbytes of international traffic has flowed between the GrangeNet network and international peer networks.
As part of the Australian Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability, GrangeNet has been offered $4m for a 2-year extension (to the end of 2006). This offer arose from the recommendations in a review of the Advanced Networks Program by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA). The members of the GrangeNet consortium have indicated they will continue to participate in the GrangeNet program under similar management arrangements. The program plan and the agreements for the extension are expected to be approved before the end of 2004.
Contact
Paul Davis
Director
GrangeNet
PO Box 1559
CANBERRA, ACT 2601
| Phone: | +612 6222 3551 |
| Fax: | +612 6222 3535 |
| Email: | director@grangenet.net |
AARNet - Australia's Research and Education Network - provides high-capacity, cost-effective Internet services to the education and research communities and their research partners. AARNet has a focus on collaboration, teaching, learning and research by connecting people to Internet resources anywhere, any time. AARNet, with access to the global Internet, is an incubator for the development of advanced network infrastructure and applications.
Contact
Chris Hancock
CEO
AARNet Pty Ltd
PO
Box 1559
CANBERRA, ACT 2601
| Phone: | +612 6222 3538 |
| Fax: | +612 6222 3535 |
| Email: | noc@aarnet.edu.au |
This is one of four projects funded by Department of Education Science and Training under the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative.
Mission: To act as a centre of excellence for the management of scholarly assets in digital format.
Objectives: The APSR project: has an overall focus on the critical issues of the access continuity and the sustainability of digital collections. will build on a base of demonstrators for digital continuity and sustainability, embedded in developmental repository facilities within partner institutions. will contribute to national strength in this area by encouraging the development of skills and expertise and providing coordination throughout the sector. will actively provide international linkages and national services.
Contact
Dr Adrian Burton
Executive Officer
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
| Phone: | +612 6125 6659 |
| Fax: | +612 6125 5526 |
| Email: | adrian.burton@anu.edu.au |
The global research community dedicated to advancing the Linux Itanium platform through collaborative relationships targeting real-world problems and solutions.
Contact Information:
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- E-mail info@gelato.org.
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Opportunities - Please read Join Us and then contact Mark K. Smith mksmith@gelato.org.
APAC's Representative for Gelato is Kevin Pulo kevin.pulo@anu.edu.au. Please contact Kevin if you would like further information.
APAC is an Institutional Founding Member of Pragma which fosters cooperation on grid infrastructure and applications by Pacific Rim research organisations. APAC co-hosted the Pragma workshop in Melbourne on 5-6 June 2003, attended by more than 70 application and grid experts from 13 Pacific Rim organisations.