CoLab's Advanced Collaborative Environments

What are Advanced Collaborative Environments (ACE)?

As high performance computing resources become less and less expensive, emphasis is being shifted to issues of users, uses and usability. At the recent Global Grid Forum conference in Amsterdam (March 2001) an Advanced Collaborative Environments Working Group was formed with a mandate to complement "other Global GF Working Groups by providing human-centered techniques and technologies for facilitating interactive, collaborative, and immersive access to Grid resources from anywhere and at any time." (Full document)