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AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS -- Registration is open for the global iGrid 2002 event this September 23-26 in Amsterdam. A showcase of 29 very-high-bandwidth technical innovations and application advancements from 15 countries will be on display. On September 25-26, two full-day Topical Meetings (Symposia) will run concurrently with the demonstrations, featuring invited keynote speakers on e-Science and Virtual Laboratory/Grid developments. IGrid 2002 will be held at the Amsterdam Science and Technology Centre (WTCW), a world-class scientific research campus and supercomputing hub where SURFnet’s 2.5 Gigabit NetherLight circuit to the StarLight in Chicago originates. Grid computing is the emerging enabling technology for facilitating multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaborations worldwide, and underlies the iGrid 2002 high-speed networking demonstrations of remote instrumentation control, tele-immersion, real-time client server systems, multimedia, tele-teaching, digital video, distributed computing and high-throughput, high-priority data transfers. The event itself will provide an international testbed for applications scientists, computer scientists, artists, networking engineers and commercial vendors to collaborate on a global scale, and advance the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing and communications. The iGrid 2002 event, funded in part by the US National Science Foundation and the Netherlands’ GigaPort project, is a challenge to scientists and technologists to optimally utilize experimental networks. Early registration ends August 1, 2002. See www.igrid2002.org for details.