Governance Issues

1
Overview and Status of Governance Issues
3rd PRAGMA Meeting Fukuoka, Japan
2
Governance Issue Topics

• Accomplishments since July in Seoul
• Goals Set in Seoul in Governance Issues
• NSF Proposal

3
Schedule of Meetings

• PRAGMA 1 11-12 March 2002, San Diego, CA, USA
• NPACI All Hands Meeting 7-8 March
• Philip Papadopoulos(UCSD/SDSC/Cal(IT)2/CRBS)
  Chair, vice Chair Sangsan Lee
• PRAGMA 2 10-11 July 2002, Seoul, Korea
• GFK 12 July
• Sangsan Lee (KISTI) Chair, co-chair Yoshio
  Tanaka
• PRAGMA 3 23-24 January 2003, Fukuoka, Japan
• APAN 22-23 Jan 2003
• Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST) Chair, co-chair David
  Abramson
• PRAGMA 4 5-6 June 2003, Melbourne, Australia
• ICCS2003 3-4 June
• David Abramson (APAC) Chair, co-Chair Fang-Pang
  Lin
• PRAGMA 5 October 2003, Hsinchu/Fushan, Taiwan
• Taiwan Grid Meeting
• Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC) Chair co chair TBD

4
Accomplishments and Activities

• Expanded Telescience Collaborative Activity (3)
• Demos at iGRID 2002 and SC02
• Expanded Data Farm Grid Resources (4)
• Demo at SC02
• Exchanged information about local
• and national grid activities
• Active Participation with many conferences
• Built partnerships with ApGrid, APEC Tel, GGF,
  APAN Grid Working Group

5
Other Accomplishments

• Resource sharing More than 240 nodes (8)
• BII, CAS, KISTI, U S Malaysia, NCHC, NECTEC,
  Osaka, Indiana, UCSD/SDSC
• Technology deployment
• Japan and Thailand (NLANR monitor deployment)
• Training and exchanges
• Singapore Bioinformatics Institutes (Clusters,
  Grid, Portals, EOL, SRB)
• Grid Forum Korea (SRB)
• Computer Network Information Center (Measurement
  Analysis)
• New collaborations NCNC and TERN
• Ecogrid

6
http//www.pragma-grid.org
PRAGMA Success Contributions from ALL
Participants

• Presentations
• Tutorials
• Meetings

7
Goals Set in Seoul

• Mission Statement
• Ready by Supercomputing
• Charter
• Principles, Procedures, Expectations
• Membership

8
Overarching Goals
Establish sustained collaborations and Advance
the use of the grid technologies for applications
among a community of investigators working with
leading institutions around the Pacific Rim
Working closely with established activities that
promote grid activities or the underlying
infrastructure, both in the Pacific Rim and
globally.
9
Mission

• The mission is to establish sustained
  collaborations and to advance the use of grid
  technologies in applications among a community of
  investigators working with leading institutions
  around the Pacific Rim.
• PRAGMA will work closely with established
  activities that promote grid activities or the
  underlying infrastructure, both in the Pacific
  Rim and globally.

10
Activities
-         Encourage and conduct joint
(multilateral) projects that promote the
development of grid facilities and technologies
in the Pacific Rim countries -         Share
resources to ensure project success -        
Conduct multi-site training in the use of grid
technologies methodologies to support
international collaborations -         Exchange
researchers between participating institutions
and promote exchange more broadly -         Meet
and communicate regularly -         Collaborate
with and participate in major regional and
international activities such as APAN, APGrid,
GGF -         Disseminate and promote knowledge
of using the grid among domain experts and
scientists - Disseminate proceedings and summary
of events and meetings on the world wide
web -         Provide and raise resource for
PRAGMA members to raise level of awareness and
funding for grid activities
11
Expected Outcomes

• Advance scientific applications
• Increase interoperability of grid middleware
• Contribute to the development of international
  grid efforts
• Increase productive and effective use of the grid
  by researchers and scientists in the Pacific Rim
• Increase collaboration on the grid in the Pacific
  Rim
• Increase grid activities within member countries,
  throughout PRAGMA and the world
• Provide core resources and model testbeds for
  regional e-science projects

12
Used at iGRID and Supercomputing 2002
13
Operating Principles and Procedures Rationale

• Create an agreed to set of principles
• Articulate mission, activities, outcomes
• Define membership
• Set expectations for existing and potentially
  interested new participants
• Establish key procedures

14
OPP Outline

• Preface
• 1. Definitions
• 2. Understandings
• 3. Objectives
• 4. Steering Committee
• 5. Intellectual Property
• 6. Financial and Hosting
• 7. Adding, Withdrawal, or Removing Participants
• 8. Other Matters
• Appendices Founding Members, Initial Steering
  Committee Members, Membership Propositions,
  Procedure for Selections of PRAGMA meeting Host
  Site, Relationships.

http//www.pragma-grid.org/Pragma_OpPrincProc2.doc
15
Key Principles and Understandings

• Open to all institutions that align with the
  goals of PRAGMA
• Individual and resources contributions are
  acknowledged
• Promote open access to software and data
• Decision making by consensus
• Members bear cost of their own participation
• Members encourage cooperation amongst themselves
  in implementation of PRAGMA,
• Document not legally binding

16
Steering Committee

• Initial Compositions
• List in OPP, from Founding Institutional Members
• Vote
• One per institution
• Responsibilities
• Review applications for membership
• Determine/maintain relationship to other groups
• Review applications to host PRAGMA meetings
• Set concrete milestones
• Others
• Proposed Structure
• Chair / co-Chair

17
Types of Participants

• Members, both for Institutions and for
  Individuals These are the institutions,
  organizations, consortiums of institutions or
  research groups, or individuals, who actively
  participate and have responsibilities, and who
  express support for and intentions to observe the
  provision of the OPP document.Normally
  universities or university based, publicly
  funded, not-for-profit research institutes
• Observers These are institutions who are not yet
  ready to become members, but who can be involved
  in a mutually beneficial way. A possible example
  may be a institutions starting activities in the
  grid.
• Affiliates These are institutions that have
  overlapping interests but are not eligible.
  Examples here include industry, or non-profit
  groups that do not have the resources to play the
  role of an active member
• Subscriber Individuals who want to learn about
  PRAGMA by subscribing to the pragma-discussion
  list.

18
Balanced Growth

• Growth is healthy
• Need it balanced to maintain focus and community
  sense

19
Procedure to Add Participants

• Steering Committee selects
• Criteria (some)
• Potential contribution to PRAGMA
• Experience interacting on projects
• Institution invited to attend meeting and submit
  application
• Final decision by Steering Committee

20
Additional Organization Notes

• Founding Members
• Steering Committee Members
• Members of PRAGMA, from Institutions who are
  members
• Institutional Participants
• May be that new institutional members are not
  represented (directly) on steering committee

21
Participating Institutions

• Australia Partnership for Advanced Computing
• Bioinformatics Institute of Singapore
• Computer Network Information Center, CAS
• Global Scientific Information and Computing
  Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Grid Technology Research Center, National
  Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
  Technology
• Korea Institute of Science and Technology
  Information
• National Center for High Performance Computing,
  National Science Council
• Research Center for Ultra-High Voltage Electron
  Microscopy and the Cybermedia Center, Osaka
  University
• STAR TAP/StarLight initiative, supported by NSF
  and organized by the University of Illinois at
  Chicago, Northwestern University and Argonne
  National Laboratory
• Thai Social/Scientific Academic and Research
  Network (ThaiSARN-3), National Electronics and
  Computer Technology Center
• TransPAC initiative, supported by NSF at Indiana
  University
• Universitis Sains Malaysia
• UCSD SDSC, CalIT2, CRBS
• University of Hyderabad

Founding Institutional Members
22
Open Issues

• Formulate explicit outcomes
• Define jointly relationships to other activities
• (As needed) Construct process to evolve steering
  committee

23
Next Steps

• Finalize discussion on OPP
• Modify as needed and implement
• By June implement OPP
• Address interest on part of other organizations
  to participate
• Challenges
• Holding meetings at application meetings

24
NSF Proposal StructurePRAGMA Renewal
Training, Exchange, Additional Coordination
Telescience
Structural Genomics
Chem- informatics
Eco- informatics
Grid Development and NMI Software Coordination
Travel for Meetings, Coordination, Web
Equipment (16 node cluster)
25
NSF Proposal - Applications

1. Telescience M. Ellisman, A.Lin, S.Peltier
   (UCSD) F.P.Lin, (NCHC) S.Shimojo (CMC, Osaka
   University). Potential Partner KISTI.
2. Structural Genomics P. Bourne, W. Li (UCSD)
   L.Ang, K. Sakharkar, and A. Krishnan (BII
   Singapore). Prospective Partners KISTI Osaka
   University Titech.
3. Cheminformatics K. Baldridge (UCSD) P.
   Uthayopas (Kasetsart University) H.Wahab (U.
   Sains Malaysia). Potential Partner KISTI
4. Ecoinformatics T. Fountain, L. Ding (UCSD) F.P.
   Lin (NCHC) S. Ninomiya and M. Laurenson
   (National Agriculture Research Center)

26
NSF Proposal Developing, Fielding and Supporting
Grid Infrastructure

• P.Papadopoulos, M.Katz (UCSD) R. Chitradon
  (NECTEC), J. Lee (KISTI) F-P Lin (NCHC), K.Nan
  (CNIC) K.Sakharkar (BII) S. Shimojo (Osaka) Y.
  Tanaka (AIST) O.Tatebe (AIST) P.Uthyopas
  (Kasetsart University) H. Wahab (U.Sains
  Malaysia) J.Williams (TransPAC).
• Human Infrastructure Role of the technical
  Liaison/Developer
• Development of Tools
• Dedicated Endpoint

27
NSF Proposal

• Support for continued interactions via
  participation in PRAGMA workshops, project-based
  visits by researchers and students as well as the
  hosting of PRAGMA workshop in the United States
• Probably 2004 bring in new applications,
  possibly new institutions/countries
• Extension of PRAGMA organization via training,
  dissemination, and outreach

28
Schedule of Meetings

• PRAGMA 1 11-12 March 2002, San Diego, CA, USA
• NPACI All Hands Meeting 7-8 March
• Philip Papadopoulos(UCSD/SDSC/Cal(IT)2/CRBS)
  Chair, vice Chair Sangsan Lee
• PRAGMA 2 10-11 July 2002, Seoul, Korea
• GFK 12 July
• Sangsan Lee (KISTI) Chair, co-chair Yoshio
  Tanaka
• PRAGMA 3 23-24 January 2003, Fukuoka, Japan
• APAN 22-23 Jan 2003
• Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST) Chair, co-chair David
  Abramson
• PRAGMA 4 5-6 June 2003, Melbourne, Australia
• ICCS2003 3-4 June
• David Abramson (APAC) Chair, co-Chair Fang-Pang
  Lin
• PRAGMA 5 October 2003, Hsinchu/Fushan, Taiwan
• Taiwan Grid Meeting
• Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC) Chair co chair TBD