GGF Partners With IDG to Create GridWorld™

For the past several years, GGF has brought together leading grid researchers, vendors, and end-users from around the world to share best practices, develop grid specifications, and encourage the adoption of grids. At GGF12 in Brussels, Belgium, GGF held its first enterprise-focused program featuring grid deployment veterans from commercial organizations in finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and many other industrial sectors.

The feedback from the Brussels event was extremely positive and as a result, GGF embarked on a project to build on the momentum of this enterprise event while increasing the focus on grid user communities in both research and industry. On June 7, GGF signed an agreement with IDG World Expo to produce GridWorld, an annual event intended to be the premier commercial, educational and technical event for grid computing worldwide.

GridWorld will combine IDG’s expertise in world class event management with GGF’s expertise in grid standards, best-practices, and program content. The inaugural GridWorld event will be held in Boston, Massachusetts October 3-6, 2005 at the Park Plaza Hotel & Towers in the heart of historic Back Bay. GridWorld in Japan, co-organized by AIST, Grid Consortium Japan, and IDG Japan, has been a very successful annual event since 2004.


View the IDG-GGF Press Release

Link to GridWorld website