Thanks to

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Thanks to

• All of the Sponsors
• APAC, QPSF, AARNET, Grangenet, SGI, Nexium,
  ReefHQ, Sun
• Local Coordinators Ian Atkinson and his many
  helpers
• Kathryn Ottaway
• Martin and Jackie Lack, Steven Turner
• Program Committee

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Program Committee

• Bernard Pailthorpe
• Fang-Pang Lin
• Yoshio Tanaka
• Shinji Shimojo
• Kai Nan
• Joe Piyawut Srichaikul
• David Abramson
• Osamu Tatebe
• Mason Katz
• Karpjoo Jeong
• Ian Atkinson
• Stuart Kininmonth

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Report from the Steering Committee

• 28 March 2006

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Agenda for Steering Committee

• Role of PRAGMA in the Grid Interoperations Now
  (GIN) activity
• Application of Potential New Members
• Dates for PRAGMA 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,
• Expansion of Steering Committee
• Working Group

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PRAGMA in the Grid Interoperations Now (GIN)
activity

• PRAGMA Steering Committee endorses PRAGMAs
  involvement in the newly formed Grid
  Interoperations Now (GIN) group,
• Request the Resources Working Group to take the
  lead in this effort

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Institutions Accepted for Membership

• Institute of High Performance Computing (iHPC)
  Terrance Hung
• Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion
  Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) Raul Hazas
  Izquierdo
• Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems
  (MIMOS) Mashkuri Yaacob

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PRAGMA Future Meetings

• PRAGMA 11
• Osaka University, 15 17 October 2006
• PRAGMA 12
• NECTEC, KU, ThaiGrid, likely week of 19 23
  March 2007
• PRAGMA 13
• NCSA, Fall 2007
• PRAGMA 14
• NCHC, Spring 2008

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Expansion of the Steering Committee

• Originally founding members
• Operating Principles and Procedures anticipated
  changes, but did not address
• Process
• Subcommittee will review issues and formulate
  principles
• Proposal by time of Osaka Meeting

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Working Group

• Data Working Group mentioned challenges
• Overall movement towards a model of
• Applications - several
• Resources - one
• Criteria for a working group
• At least 3 institutions involved
• At least one concrete project
• An individual (or two) to lead

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Reappointments by Steering Committee

• Deputy Chair
• Fang-Pang Lin will serve one more year
• Chair
• Peter Arzberger will serve three more years

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Final Thanks

• All of the people who put time/energy into the
  making this meeting a watershed event
• Many new participants
• New activities
• Strong collaborative foundation