inSORS to Grid-enable GGF8 Event from Seattle, Washington

May 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 we will once again utilize the inSORS Grid (IG) platform to enable distance collaboration for many of the working and research group sessions of the Global Grid Forum 8 meeting to be held June 24 through June 27, 2003, in Seattle, Washington.

As we did at the GGF7 event in Tokyo, inSORS will offer 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 Tokyo 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 was the case with GGF7, the GGF8 sessions will be recorded and made available through inSORS.

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 GGF8 schedule, please visit the GGF website.

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.