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One of TFCC's goals is to promote: Cluster Computing Education around the world. We are working on building a cluster computing education web site providing pointers to information.
The Cluster Computing Resources Web site, which will be maintained at TFCC-Education web site includes the following:
Our new program towards this direction is provide FREE books to faculty members around world teaching courses on cluster computing or encourage them to introduce cluster computing in their curriculum.
To achieve the above, we need to request book publishers to donate books to TFCC, which we then distribute to faculties teaching (or plans to teach) cluster computing. Publishers will agree/happy to donate when we assure/ensure that books donated by them are used in developing the course (at least some percent). If you have authored/coauthored book related to cluster computing, please request the publisher to donate books to TFCC!
May 13, 99: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers would provide related
books that may be of interest to the community of faculties (TFCC members)
involved in teaching cluster computing. Please select book(s) of your interest
from: http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/areas/parallel_distributed.asp
and then fill the form located at: http://www.mkp.com/orders/exam_form.htm
September 14, 99: Baltzer Science Publishers agreed to donate up to 40 copies of the Cluster Computing Journal. Please contact Monika Grobecker (mgro@geniasoft.com) if you wish to receive a copy of this special issue. (nomination closed!, already donated) September 15, 99: TFCC members get a highly subsidised price (low-cost) for online subscription to the Cluster Computing Journal. Baltzer Science Publishers offer each one of the TFCC members an online subscription to the journal at $40. These would be personal subscriptions. Links to libraries may not be made. Subscriptions must be paid from personal accounts and paid directly to Baltzer (not through subscription agents). Members can fill in the order form (http://www.baltzer.nl/cluster/cluster.order.html) mentioning being "TFCC member" and have access to the Cluster Computing Journal at low-cost.
November 25, 99: ESRPIT Network of Excellence, Working Group 22582 (SCIWG) announced the donation of 50 copies of the book to TFCC members. Thanks to Wolfgang Karl, TUM, for making the donation possible.
Jan. 5, 2000: With the generous contributions from MPI Software Technology, Inc., (thanks to Anthony Skjellum) TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following books: (nomination closed!, already donated)
Jan. 5, 2001: With the generous contributions from GRID 2000 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book:)(nomination closed!, already donated)
May 22, 2001: With the generous contributions from CCGrid 2001 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book:)(nomination closed!, already donated)
April 5, 2002: Courtesy of Elsevier Science, a free access to the online version of FGCS specical issue (Guest editors: C. Lee, P. Roe, and R. Buyya):
June 11, 2002: With the generous contributions from Cluster 2001 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book: (nomination closed!, already donated)
July 15, 2002: With the generous contributions from CCGrid 2002 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 30 copies of the following book:(nomination closed!, already donated)
Oct. 25, 2002: With the generous contributions from CLUSTER 2002 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 130 copies of the following book: (nomination closed!, already donated)
March 10, 2003: Ten copies following special issue are distributed via this program: (nomination closed!, already donated)
Oct 14, 2003:With the generous contributions from Sams Publishing, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book: (nomination closed!, already donated)
March 27, 2004: Courtesy of Barry Wilkinson, TFCC is pleased to announce the donation of 30 copies of the book book: (nomination closed!, already donated)
Nov 17, 2004: Courtesy of Dan Katz, TFCC is pleased to announce the donation of 100 copies of the book book:
Nov 17, 2004: Courtesy of Dan Katz, TFCC is pleased to announce the donation of 30 copies of the book book: (nomination closed!, already donated)
These books are available to only to TFCC members and preference will be given to those who have not yet benefited from our earlier donations. Faculty members are requested to contact R. Buyya if you wish to receive a copy of the book for use in your course.
We request publishers to donate books to TFCC for promoting cluster computing education. Your support to TFCC will be appreciate and acknowledged.
If you are interested in donating books via TFCC program, please contact:
Rajkumar Buyya
Co-Chair, IEEE
Task Force on Cluster Computing
New Secretary:
Ms. Nickyla Britton MCNC-GCNS 3021 Cornwallis Road P. O. Box 12889 Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27707 nbritton@mcnc.org (919) 248-1920 - Telephone (919) 248-1101 - Fax
Former Secretary:
Mrs. Faye Ellis, faye@mcnc.org MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services 3021 Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
Former Secretary:
Ms. Monika Grobecker
Sun GridEngine Team
Sun Microsystems GmbH
Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Strasse 7
D-93049 Regensburg, Germany
Phone: +49 941 3075-100
Fax: + 49 941 3075-222
Email: monika.grobecker@germany.sun.com