Save the Grids!

The National Collaboratories program, part of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, is being threatened by budget cuts. Carl Kesselman, Globus co-founder, said "The termination of the National Collaboratories program will have an enormously disruptive effect on national and international eScience projects, effectively ceasing all research, development and support for large amounts of distributed systems and collaborative software."

Cuts to this program mean that the entity that developed things like GridFTP, AccessGrid, and the Java CoG will essentially disappear.

For Carl's open letter to the Globus community and to learn more about what you can do to help, see: http://www-unix.globus.org/mail_archive/discuss/2005/02/msg00441.html