ADVISORY/Game Grid Innovation Workshop at UCI.

Entertainment Editors/Assignment Desks/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Oct. 30)

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2003

What:   The Game Grid Innovation Workshop is the premiere of the
        Game Research Grid, the first massively multi-user online
        grid-based game server for research, teaching, art and
        experimentation. This is a joint project with the San Diego
        Supercomputer Center and the Cal-(IT)2 Game Culture &
        Technology Lab. The project has been enabled through a
        software gift and technology partnership with Butterfly.net,
        producer of the world's first standards-compliant grid
        computing software for "massively multiplayer"
        ("persistent-state") online game worlds. Butterfly.net's
        software will be installed initially on a high-performance
        grid system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and be made
        available to researchers, instructors, artists and independent
        developers for research with multi-user game worlds.

When:   Thursday, Oct. 30
        9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where:  Beall Center for Art & Technology
        University of California, Irvine
        http://beallcenter.uci.edu/directions/directions.htm

For more information visit the following sponsors' sites:
        --Butterfly.net: www.butterfly.net
        --San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego: www.sdsc.edu
        --Cal-(IT)2 Game Culture & Technology Lab: www.ucgamelab.net
        --Cal-(IT)2: www.calit2.net
        --Beall Center for Art and Technology: www.beallcenter.uci.edu
        --Institute for Software Research: www.isr.uci.edu