The Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2006) will be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Hobart, Jan. 16 - Jan. 19, 2006. This symposium follows on from two successful Australian Grid workshops (in Melbourne in 2002, the Gold Coast in 2003 and Newcastle in 2005) which were organized by the Australian Grid Forum to promote grid computing research, applications and collaboration in Australia.
Interest in Grid computing in Australia and internationally is rapidly growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and complexity.
The Australian Government Department of Education, Science, and Technology (DEST) is actively supporting e-Research by initiating projects that provide a national grid infrastructure and grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. Recently, it formed an e-Research Coordination Committee to develop a framework that encourages further update of Grid computing and its usage in various application domains. The Australian Research Council is also implementing an initiative to support Grid Computing and e-Research in Australia.
Topics of interest for the symposium include:
The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.
We expect to provide time for a panel session or group discussion on topics of particular interest.
This symposium also serves as the fourth meeting of the Australian Grid Forum. The forum's steering committee meeting will also be held in conjunction with the symposium. This provides an opportunity for all participants to influence activities of the forum.