Summary of Steering Committee Meeting

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Summary of Steering Committee Meeting

• 24 October 2008

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The PRAGMA Steering Committee
http//www.pragma-grid.net/people/committee/
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Best time to think ahead
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Initial Thoughts about the Future

• Ask the right question What will PRAGMA become?
• Themes
• Applications drive development
• Technologies and middleware shared experiences
• Collaborations joint projects
• Education future generation for a globally
  engaged workforce
• Framework to build a community and persistent
  collaborations
• Its all about impact
• Transformational Research
• Preparing students
• Societal Impact

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Sustainability Realities

• Focus provides a concentration of efforts to
  make progress
• Differentiation how are we different from other
  efforts?
• Solutions these are essential
• Funding and Interest drives what we can do

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Opportunities

• Providing access to resources via virtualization
• Addressing challenges of data
• Driving use (and deployment) of larger network
  through HD video

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Education and Outreach

• Create Working Group on Education
• Focus on track record of PRIME, PRIUS, MURPA
• Develop more exchange opportunities
• Create seminars and courses that will be
  delivered by PRAGMA members via HD, in a
  multicast mode
• Outreach
• Take steps to develop / do outreach activities,
  brining technologies to community with major
  impact
• Take steps to articulate to the public what we do
  and why it is important

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Membership

• Institution of Information Technology VN

Welcome
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Vietnamese food
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Next Workshops

• PRAGMA 17
• Hanoi, Vietnam
• Proposed Workshop Dates 28 (Wed) 30 (Fri)
  October
• Proposed Training Dates 27 (Tues) 28 (Wed)
  October
• PRAGMA 16
• Daejun, Korea
• 23(Mon) - 25(Wed) March 2009
• KISTI is host

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Joint PRAGMA Institute and Southeast Asia
International Joint Research and Training Program
in High-Performance Computing Applications and
Networking Technology

• 1 5 December 2008
• Taichung

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Thank You

• Host Institution USM
• Supporting Institutions MOSTI,
• Sponsors HP, Teliti, SGI, Mimos, Jaring, BT
  Frontline, Techsource
• Many Committees
• Local Organizing Committee
• Lucie Chuah Abdulah
• Suriyati Muhamad
• Zulham Hamdan, CIO
• Working Committee
• Logistics and Social Committee
• Supporting Committee
• Organizing Committee

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Rotation off Steering Committee

• Piyawut Joe Srichaikul
• Arun Agarwal

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Rotating from Deputy Chair
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PRAGMA 15