Summary of the Steering Committee Meeting

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Summary of the Steering Committee Meeting

• 24 January 2003

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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

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Steering Committee

• John OCallahan, Bernard Pailthorpe, David
  Abramson APAC
• Larry Ang BII
• Yan Baoping, Nan Kai CAS/CNIC
• Satoshi Masuoka TITech/GSICC
• Satoshi Sekiguchi, Yoshio Tanaka AIST
• Sangsan Lee, Jysoo Lee KISTI
• Whey-Fone Tsai, Fang-Pang Lin NCHC

• Shinji Shimojo Osaka University/CMC
• Royol Chitradon, Joe Piyawut NECTEC
• Maxine Brown StarTap
• Rick McMullen, Jim Williams
• Habibah Wahab U Sains Malaysia
• Philip Papadopoulos, Peter Arzberger
  UCSD/SDSC/Cal-(IT)2/CRBS

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Decisions

• Accepted the Operating Principle and Procedures
  document
• Finalized by 15 February 2003
• New Members
• Will invite two institutions to join
• Chair
• Peter Arzberger
• Deputy Chair
• By 15 February 2003

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Open Issues (1)to report on in June 2003

• Affiliates from Industry
• Agreed
• PRAGMA is an academic based organization
• Many advantages for involvement of industry
• We want industrial affiliates involvement
• Will formulate more careful guidelines
• Relationships with other Organizations
• APAN, GGF, ApGrid, APECTel,
• Will formulate and propose relationship

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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

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Open Issue (2) to report on in June 2003

• Establish milestones for PRAGMA
• Use Expected Outcomes as an outline
• Using key meetings as marker
• Use these to set goals for PRAGMA meetings

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PRAGMA 4, 5 and Beyond Meetings

• 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
• TENTATIVE DATES 22 23 October 2003
• Possible Future Meetings
• China, USA, Malaysia (decide in Australia about
  PRAGMA 6)

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