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10 March 2002 Sunday11 March, 2002 Monday12 March, 2002 Tuesday
10 March 2002 Sunday  • Location: Radisson Hotel La Jolla
17:00 — 19:00

Reception Hosted by SDSC

Radisson Hotel La Jolla-Wind and Sea Ballroom
3299 Holiday Court- 1st Floor, Parking on 1st
La Jolla, CA 92037
Parking is available on the 1st and 4th floor entrances.

Dinner on your own

11 March, 2002 Monday: Day 1 • Location: SDSC Auditorium
Current Applications Groups: The Needs and The Resources 
09:00 — 9:20 Bus from Radisson Hotel
09:30 — 10:00 Continental Breakfast
10:00 — 10:30 Welcome
  • Francine Berman, Director, SDSC and NPACI: View from SDSC, NPACI, TeraGrid
  • John Wooley, UCSD Associate Vice Chancellor Research
  • Ron Graham, California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology
  • William Chang, NSF, Senior Program Manager in East Asia Pacific Programs
  • Peter Arzberger, Goals of PRAGMA Initiative- ppt slide presentation
 
 
 
 
 
10:30 — 11:30

Workshop Goals

Philip Papadopoulos, Meeting Chair;
Sangsan Lee, Meeting Vice Chair

  • Introductions of Participants
  • Setting Stage and Overall Workshop Goals:
    • Focus on Applications
    • Goals of Application Breakouts
      • Goals of Science
      • Resources needed
      • Impediments to the Grid System
  • Relationships with other activities:
    • TeraGrid (Fran Berman)
    • APGrid (Satoshi Sekiguchi)
    • GGF (Charlie Catlett)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11:30 — 11:45 Break
11:45 — 13:15 Grid Applications: Part I: (Session Chair: Peter Arzberger)
Topics to be covered by each application presentation
13:15 — 14:30 Lunch
Video Conferencing with ASIA Participants Begins at 1430 PST
14:30 — 16:00 Grid Applications: Part II (Moderator: Jysoo Lee, KISTI-ppt slide presenation)
  • Presentations by various PRAGMA participants, with experiences on the grid.
    • Application Experiences
      (Eun-Bo Shim - Kumho National University of Technology-ppt slide presenation)

    • Environmental Applications
      • Bruce Cornuelle, SIO – Movement of very large data sets
      • Data Grids: Chaitan Baru, SDSC- ppt slide presentation
 
 
 
 
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:30 Understanding the resources and interests of the participants: (Moderator: Professor Yan, China)
  • Brief presentations by members of each participating site to cover one or more of the following questions (10 minutes per presentation)
    • Overview of Available/Planned resources
    • Scientific Application Disciplines
    • Status of Grid Plans
    • How the institution wants to participate in PRAGMA
    • Australia Partnership for Advanced Computing (Bernard Pailthorpe-ppt slide presentation)
    • Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Baoping Yan-ppt slide presentation)
    • National Center for High Performance Computing (Fang-Pang Lin-ppt slide presentation)
    • University of Hyderabad, India (Kalidas Sen – Contact)
    • AIST (Satoshi Sekiguchi – Contact-ppt slide presentation)
    • TITECH (Satoshi Matsuoka-Contact-ppt slide presentation)
    • KISTI (Sangsan Lee – Contact)
    • Universiti Sains Malaysia (Habibah Wahab – Contact, ppt slide presentation)
    • BioInformatics Institute, Singapore (Larry Ang - Contac-ppt slide presentation)
    • National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand (Dr. Piyawut Srichaikul-ppt slide presentation)
 
 
 
18:30 – 18:45 Summary of the Day, Expectations for the following day (Philip Papadopoulos-ppt slide presentation, Sangsan Lee)
19:00 – 20:00 Walk on beach at La Jolla Shores
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner: Piatti’s at La Jolla Shores
12 March, 2002 • Tuesday : Day 2 • Location: SDSC Auditorium
Planning Action to Meet Needs                                                                            back to top
08:00 and 8:20 Bus from Radisson Hotel
08:30 – 09:00 Continental Breakfast
09:00 – 09:30 Review of application gaps/needs - (Scribes/Co-Chairs)
09:30 – 10:15 Overview of Networking Initiatives and Monitoring
 
 
10:15 – 10:30 Charge to Breakouts (Sangsan Lee, Philip Papadopoulos-ppt slide presentation)
10:30 – 10:45 Break - Move to breakouts
10:45 – 11:45 Concurrent Breakout Groups (balanced application and technology individuals participation in each breakout)
Breakout Group #1 – Resources (Fang-Pang Lin, Mason Katz – Scribe)
Possible Topics include:

  • Identify testbeds for application development
  • Resources from various members
  • Interaction with networks
  • Account and resource allocation
  • How?
  • What can be done now? What takes a more formal approach?
  • How much resource? What is acceptable use?


Breakout Group #2 - Grid Software (Henri Casanova, Arun Krishnan - Scribe)
Possible topics include:

  • Establishing Acceptance of Existing Certificates to allow for single sign-on
  • Automated co-scheduling with grid testbeds
  • Challenges
  • Implementation Test Plan
  • Beyond CPUs -- What software is needed on instruments, networks, storage to satisfy the application needs
11:45 – 14:15 Lunch (Munk Conference Room, SIO) Includes walk on Scripps Pier
Video conferencing with participants from Asia begins at 14:15 PST
14:15 – 15:15 Breakouts from morning sessions resume for reporting
15:15 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Reports from Breakout Groups and Open Discussion
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:45 Group Planning (Sangsan Lee – Session Chair-ppt slide presentation 1 and ppt slide presentation 2)
  • Timelines for applications that could not represented at this meeting
  • iGrid2002 Planning (Philip Papadopoulos)
  • Identify two people from each application to "lead the charge"
  • Application developer
  • Infrastructure/resource provider
  • Set target dates for first application tests
  • Goal: applications running on some testbeds before July PRAGMA Meeting
  • Set plans for follow-through teleconferences/video conferences for each
    application group

  • Next Meeting : 10 – 12 July (Korea)
 
 
17:45 – 18:00 Summary
18:00 – 21:00 Dinner at UCSD Faculty Club
 

 



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