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15 March
2002
Dear PRAGMA Colleagues
and Friends,
We want to thank you
again for participating in the Inaugural Pacific Rim Application
and Grid Middleware Assembly workshop and making it a resounding
success. From the feedback we have received during and after the
meeting, this first PRAGMA was a major watershed event. We believe
it succeeded on at least three levels.
- First and most
fundamentally: We began the building of a community of
people committed to making sustainable collaborations work in
the Pacific Rim, focused on building applications on the grid.
- Second:
We identified concrete actions plans, with names, timelines and
tangible deliverables over the next few months (see below for
a summary).
- Third:
We identified further issues and opportunities for us as a group
to handle, ranging from governance to policy issues.
There is a Chinese saying
that happiness is something to do, someone to love, something to
hope for. With a broad interpretation, we should feel happy about
what we have accomplished in a short period of time. We have taken
the first step, and we will be challenging each other to take subsequent
steps to create sustainable collaborations.
In the week since the
end of the meeting we have done the following:
- One version of pictures
is now on the web site at http://pragma.ucsd.edu/photo_gallery.html
.
- Please let us know
whether there are objections to linking this to the home page.
- We also plan to
have a mapping of names to faces on the group photo taken at
the pier.
- An article appeared
in the NPACI/SDSC bi-weekly e-newsletter of Online about the meeting.
The article was also published in NCSA's Access Online News Releases,
located at: http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Releases/020311.SDSC.html
- For individuals who
used a credit card for paying for the hotel, many of you should
get a credit on your card. The hotel received the payment on Wednesday
13 March. If you have any questions, please contact Teri Simas,
PRAGMA Coordinator (simast@sdsc.edu).
Attached please find
a copy of the action list from the meeting. Please let us know if
we have left anything off and whether there are items that could
be added.
We are looking forward
to the meeting in Korea, and in keeping in touch with you on a regular
basis, to ensure an ongoing dialog and progress report as events
happen.
Peter Arzberger Philip
Papadopoulos Teri Simas
parzberg@ucsd.edu phil@sdsc.edu simast@sdsc.edu
Action
Items from PRAGMA First Workshop:
Establish PRAGMA
website (knowledge repository)
- Basic Contents
- General information
- Software repository
(and pointers to sites)
- Application Links
- Portal for a test
application (point to an existing one?)
- Easy way for folks
in PRAGMA to update
- First Steps:
- SDSC to set up (www.pragma.org
already taken)
- Other volunteers
to help administer (will have accounts here to make this easy).
- Other issues to
consider:
- Target Date: Basic
website setup April 1, 2002
Application Identification
for iGrid 2002
- People involved:
- Checkpoint on April
15
- Goal
- 2 or 3 applications,
possible people that would get together
- Form:
- Contact for Scientist
- Contact for Resource
Technologist
- Some applications
targets already identified, this group to help refine plans.
Organize PRAGMA
2 Workshop
- Chair of Meeting:
Sangsan Lee
- Time: 10 — 11
July
- Location: Korea (Seoul
or Daejeon)
- Issues
Near Term Applications
- Possibly for demonstration
to iGRID2002
- Protein Structure
Annotation
- Scientist —
Application driver: NEEDED
- Resource/Technologist:
kishore@bii-sg.org
- Participating Institutions:
SDSC, BII, others?
- Remote Telescience
- High-energy Physics
- Scientists
- Resource/Technology
- Participating Institutions
- Nimrod on PRAGMA/APGrid
Testbed?
Establish application
and infrastructure testbeds
- Working with APGrid
- Communicating back
with the PRAGMA website masters for group-wide communication
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