Computational Chemistry Grid ConferenceLexington 17 September 2001 SURA and the University of Kentucky, with support from the Army Research Laboratory, are co-sponsoring the Computational Chemistry Grid Conference, October 16 -17. This conference is designed to build connections between the developments in computational chemistry and the user community, and to provide a "bridge" between various Internet protocols that are being used to share information. This is the first Internet conference to use technology to link Mbone and H.323 technologies into a single distributed environment.
The conference, on the cutting edge of both science and Internet technology, will center on applications of quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, solid state chemistry and biochemistry. Leaders of quantum mechanics and molecular simulations will be speaking at this conference, including Dr. Keiji Morokuma (Emory) and Dr.Steven Harvey (UAB). In addition, developers of some of the most widely used quantum codes will speak: Dr. M. Frisch, Gaussian, Inc., Dr. Theresa Windus of Pacific Northwest Laboratories (NWChem) and Dr. P. Bartlett of the University of Florida (ACES II). The noteworthy addition to this conference is a technical effort to span the gulf between ACCESS Grid users and H.323 users. Previously, these two collaborative tools have been technologically incompatible, leading to an economic divide between Internet users who had substantial resources (to procure and run an Access Grid node) and those who had more meager resources or needed to focus their resources on a commercially interoperable technology (H.323 users). This conference will showcase a gateway between the Access Grid and H.323, enabling diverse remote conference participation and illuminating a path for less resource rich institutions, such as HBCU's and MSI's to participate more fully in the state-of-the-art collaborative environments that are emerging on the Internet for research and education.
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