inSORS to Grid-enable GGF7 Group Sessions from Tokyo, Japan

January 13, 2003

CHICAGO --- inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc., a Chicago-based communications firm and Gold Sponsor of the Global Grid Forum, is proud to announce that it will once again utilize the inSORS Grid (IG) platform to enable distance collaboration for many of the working and research group sessions of the GGF7 meeting to be held March 4 through 7, 2003, at the Hotel Intercontinental Keio Plaza in Tokyo, Japan.

Similar to its offering at the GGF6 event in Chicago, inSORS will provide remote GGF members who are unable to attend the conference in person the ability to participate using the inSORS Grid and the underlying Access Grid technology.

At the Chicago event, remote participants collaborated from several sites including Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom, Amsterdam, and the U.S. Participation levels varied from viewers of training sessions to interactive participants in many of the Working Group and Research Group sessions.

As were the GGF6 sessions, GGF7 sessions will be recorded and made available through inSORS.

The IG, which is the commercialized version of the original Access Grid prototype, links dispersed locations with immersive, interactive, rich-media communications and accelerates the adoption of grid collaboration by the commercial sector. The IG also adds commercial class stability, ease of use, and added functionality to the original platform. Additionally, inSORS provides value-added professional services to implement nodes quickly and efficiently.

The Global Grid Forum is a community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies. GGF is the result of a merger of the Grid Forum, the eGrid European Grid Forum, and the Grid community in Asia-Pacific.

For more information regarding the GGF7 schedule, please visit the GGF website.