Broadcast of
Super Computing 2004 Keynote Speeches

via Access Grid
from Pittsburgh, USA

Invitation

If you're not at Super Computing (SC) 2004, but you would like to listen in to the Keynote addresses of the main conference as well as the SC Global track, then the opportunity is here!

National Grid Office is pleased to announce that we will be streaming in the Keynote speeches of the SC 2004 as well the SC Global track to the Singapore community directly LIVE from Pittsburgh, USA.

The Access Grid node is located at:

The Big One, Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613.

Please note the timings of the broadcasts. They are both at night (2200hrs and 2330hrs) on 9 Nov 2004!

Program Highlights

1) Keynote Address
(9 Nov 2004, 0900-1000 Eastern time, 2200-2300 SG time)

The SC2004 Keynote will be given by Tom West, President and CEO of National LambdaRail, Inc., a national effort comprising of members and associates from across the country focused on implementing and operating a national network infrastructure to serve the needs of the advanced research community. His talk is entitled NLR: Providing the Nationwide Network Infrastructure for Network and Big Science Research. He will discuss how NLR came into being, what it is comprised of, and how it is being initially used.

More information here.

2) Opening Comments for SC Global and Keynote
(9 Nov 2004, 1030-1200 Eastern time 2330 (9 Nov) - 0100 (10 Nov) SG time)

by Larry Smarr (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology), Harry E. Gruber (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego)

The title of this talk is "Towards a Planetary Collaboratory".

More information here.

Registration

Admission is Free. All are Welcome.

To register for this event, please email Jon Lau at jonlau@ngp.org.sg

This event is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.