Summary of Steering Committee Meeting 24 October 2008.

Summary of Steering Committee Meeting

24 October 2008

The PRAGMA Steering Committee

http://www.pragma-grid.net/people/committee/

Best time to think ahead

Initial Thoughts about the Future• Ask the right question: What will PRAGMA

become?• Themes:

– Applications – drive development– Technologies and middleware – shared experiences– Collaborations – joint projects– Education – future generation for a globally engaged

workforce– Framework – to build a community and persistent

collaborations

• Its all about impact:– Transformational Research– Preparing students– Societal Impact

Sustainability Realities

• Focus: provides a concentration of efforts to make progress

• Differentiation: how are we different from other efforts?

• Solutions: these are essential

• Funding and Interest: drives what we can do

Opportunities

• Providing access to resources via virtualization

• Addressing challenges of data

• Driving use (and deployment) of larger network through HD video

Education and Outreach• Create Working Group on Education

– Focus on track record of PRIME, PRIUS, MURPA– Develop more exchange opportunities

• Create seminars and courses that will be delivered by PRAGMA members via HD, in a multicast mode

• Outreach: – Take steps to develop / do outreach activities,

brining technologies to community with major impact

– Take steps to articulate to the public what we do and why it is important

Membership

• Institution of Information Technology – VN

Welcome

Vietnamese food

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Next Workshops

• PRAGMA 17– Hanoi, Vietnam– Proposed Workshop Dates: 28 (Wed) – 30

(Fri) October– Proposed Training Dates: 27 (Tues) – 28

(Wed) October

• PRAGMA 16– Daejun, Korea – 23(Mon) - 25(Wed) March 2009– KISTI is host

Joint PRAGMA Institute and Southeast Asia International Joint Research and Training

Program in High-Performance Computing Applications and

Networking Technology

1 – 5 December 2008

Taichung

Thank You• Host Institution: USM• Supporting Institutions: MOSTI, • Sponsors: HP, Teliti, SGI,

Mimos, Jaring, BT Frontline, Techsource

• Many Committees– Local Organizing Committee

• Lucie Chuah Abdulah• Suriyati Muhamad• Zulham Hamdan, CIO

– Working Committee– Logistics and Social Committee– Supporting Committee– Organizing Committee

Rotation off Steering Committee

• Piyawut “Joe” Srichaikul

• Arun Agarwal

Rotating from Deputy Chair

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