For more information, please contact Teri Simas, simast@sdsc.edu or 858-534-5034.

A Special Note of Thanks
We would like to take a moment to sincerely thank you for participating in the Inaugural PRAGMA Workshop. A letter of thanks from Peter Arzberger, Phil Papadopoulos, and myself is attached. We look forward to the ongoing success of this project and to hearing from you all in the near future.

PRAGMA has been founded as an open organization in which Pacific Rim institutions will collaborate more formally to develop grid-enabled applications and will deploy the needed infrastructure throughout the Pacific Region to allow data, computing, and other resource sharing. Based on current collaborations, PRAGMA will enhance these collaborations and connections among individual investigators by promoting visiting scholars' and engineers' programs, building new collaborations, formalizing resource-sharing agreements, and continuing trans-Pacific network deployment. PRAGMA provides an opportunity for member institutions to work together to address applications and infrastructure research of common interest.

PRAGMA is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. INT-0216895), the San Diego Supercomputer Center on behalf of the University of California San Diego, and member institutions.