The PRAGMA Steering Committee
http://www.pragma-grid.net/people/committee/
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
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