GGF nurtures new communities of interest
Physicists, operators of telecommunications firms, educators, aerospace engineers, and researchers in the life sciences; the communities that can benefit from grid computing keeps growing. Financial services companies are using grids to run the compute-intensive applications for risk analysis. Astronomers are mapping the universe and creating grid-based image repositories.

GGF already has strong communities of grid users in particle and nuclear physics, the life sciences, astronomy, and the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Collaborative environments, such as the Access Grid, bring more communities into the larger grid community, and experts involved in preserving important data of all kinds are using grids for electronic data archiving projects.

Building an international grid community
In 2005, GGF is dedicated to building a broad international grid community for the exchange of ideas, experiences, requirements, and best practices. In the commercial world, we've invited key players in finance and telecommunications to join forces with us to identify requirements for standardization and best practices and to develop recommendations for applying grid technologies in their vertical markets. Other targeted industries include pharmaceuticals, which could benefit greatly through collaborative drug design and through links to existing life sciences grids, and the automotive and transportation industries, which need to link with customers, supply chains, and internal divisions scattered across the globe.

If your commercial or research community could benefit from a grid-enabled environment, we invite you to attend the next GGF event, where you will find a wealth of information on grid computing and grid experiences.

To find out if your sector or discipline has an existing GGF community of interest, or to find out how to establish a new GGF community, please contact communities@ggf.org.

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