Global Grid Forum 2Washington 20 July 2001 GGF2, held July 15-18 in Washington, DC attracted 340 participants. Twenty countries and 180 organizations were present at GGF2 In total 36 draft papers were discussed, 6 tutorials were offered, and 2 full days of updates were held ranging from individual project updates to funding initiative plans in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. GGF3 will be held in Italy, this Fall.
The Global Grid Forum is a community-initiated
forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on
"grid" technologies. The group is the result of a merger of the Grid Forum, the
eGrid European Grid Forum, and the Grid community in Asia-Pacific. The forum efforts
have included five major workshops in the US in 1999 and 2000 and two in Europe during 2000 and two in 2001.
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