What makes PRAGMA as

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What makes PRAGMA as

• NSF funding
• SDSC leadership
• Application focused
• Invitation-based institutional-level
  participation
• SDSCs role in PRAGMAs initial phase is vital
  to AP countries and economies Grid activities
  with experience transfer

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Things to cover before

• PRAGMA mission statement
• Governance
• Steering committee
• Membership
• Meaning, requirements, commitments,
• Workshop sites
• Candidate sites, proposal needed, how to get to
  conclusion,

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Things to cover before

• Software license
• Gaussian,
• Software development
• Legal issues open source ?
• Sharing computing resources
• Local funding agency
• Resource catalogue

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Things to cover before

• MOU template among institutes
• May be multilateral
• Personal exchange
• Training

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Things to cover before

• PRAGMA mission statement
• To establish sustained collaborations and advance
  the use of the computational grid among a
  community of investigators at the leading
  institutions around the Pacific Rim
• One of each institution expected to give comments
  within 6 weeks- Phil

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Two thoughts

• Relieved ( )
• Korea(KISTI) has proposed well in advance before
  all other countries raise the hands to host the
  workshop
• Worried (T T)
• SDSC set such a wonderful and lovely tone to
  PRAGMA workshop that

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Hosting Plan

• Dates
• PRAGMA July 10 July 11
• GFK2 July 12
• Grid application tutorial to be given
• Venue
• Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul
• (alternative) Hotel Lotte in Daejeon

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Considerations

• Easy to access from airport
• VTC capabilities
• Wireless networks
• High-performance networks
• Rooms for tutorials
• Outing and good Korean food
• KISTI visit possibility
• Seoul ! . ? Daejeon

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Focus

• Applications
• Participating institutes requested to accompany
  application scientists
• Application scientists to be preferably supported
• First-hand Grid application user tutorials may be
  arranged before PRAGMA

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Areas to cover

• Finalize PRAGMA mission statement, governance,
  membership issues
• Information sharing methods
• Status report of Grid applications proposed in
  SDSC workshop for iGrid2002, SC2002, further
  down
• New issues in policy, technology and science
• Searching for new applications to follow

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Additionals

• Network experts expected to join
• APAN, APII, TransPAC, NLANR,
• All future workshop host candidates invited to
  join the program committee
• Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia,
• Local arrangement to be supported by KISTI
• Level of coverage to be decided upon financial
  availability

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Worth Big Hands

• Phil and Peter to lead
• Fran, John, Larry to support
• Bill to make it happen
• Teri for wonderful support
• All participants with discussions to have
  wonderful setup ready to go
• Lets meet in Korea in July