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PRAGMA Develops PacRim Grids

November 18, 2003 PRAGMA Develops PacRim Grids PRAGMA has been founded as an open organization in which Pacific Rim institutions will collaborate more formally to develop Grid-enabled applications and will deploy the needed infrastructure throughout the Pacific Region to allow data, computing and other resource sharing. Based on current collaborations, PRAGMA will enhance these collaborations and connections among individual investigators by promoting visiting scholars’ and engineers’ programs, building new collaborations, formalizing resource-sharing agreements, and continuing trans-Pacific network deployment. PRAGMA provides an opportunity for member institutions to work together to address applications and infrastructure research of common interest. This Web site is a unique collaboration among Webmasters from four different countries, to include Japan, Korea, Singapore and the United States. A series of workshops has been inaugurated with the first being held in March, 2002 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California-San Diego. Attendees were warmly welcomed to Seoul, Korea for the 2nd PRAGMA workshop, held at the Westin Chosun Hotel on July 10-11, 2002, and hosted by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). Subsequent meetings were held in January 2003 (PRAGMA 3 - Japan) and June 2003 (PRAGMA 4 - Australia) and PRAGMA 5 was held in October 2003 (Taiwan). The PRAGMA 6 meeting is scheduled to be held in Beijing, China, in May 2004. For more information, see www.pragma-Grid.net. Copyright 1993-2003 HPCwire. Redistribution of this article is forbidden by law without the expressed written consent of the publisher. For a free trial subscription to HPCwire, send e-mail to: trial @ hpcwire.com