Report From PRAGMA12 - Neil Gemmell

From BeSTGRID

We had another successful and fun PRAGMA meeting! Thanks for the hard work and thoughtfulness of our PRAGMA fellows at NECTEC and ThaiGrid, Joe, Putchong, Sornthep, Somsak and Sugree and many others!

The theme of PRAGMA12 was "The Fellowship Of The Grid". We discovered who are the "The Two Towers", "The Return Of The King" and many professional-grade singers and dancers among PRAGMA fellows! J

We rejoiced with old friends and had a good time with many new friends from Australia, China, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. See http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/New_friends_at_PRAGMA_12

Let me briefly summarize some key decisions in resources working group at PRAGMA 12, also new happenings and some accomplishments I know since my last summary at end of last year. Others please add and correct. To reduce the length of my email  :-) I try to replace details with URLs. Please see the links for more information.

Resources group decisions: . Expand gfarm deployment to all PRAGMA grid sites . Encourage more applications run in PRAGMA grid o Each site to help scientists in its home institution to run applications in PRAGMA grid . Setup and test condor pool in PRAGMA grid (UCSD, AIST, MIMOS) . Setup a CSF server for PRAGMA grid (JLU) . Put CAMERA data on gfarm and run BLAST via Ninf-g

New happenings: . PRAGMA Steering Committee approved the launch of PRAGMA Institute . Geo working group is official . Many new projects/collaborations: Geo, Earthquake, CAMERA, Cyberbridges, Sociology

Some key accomplishments and progress this year: . New PRAGMA web site is ready (Teri Simas, Tomas Molina, George Yang) . Growing PRAGMA Grid - 32 Clusters from 29 institutions in 14 countries/regions, + 7 in preparation, see http://goc.pragma-grid.net/pragma-doc/testbed.JPG . Gfarm deployment in PRAGMA grid o Current status: 8 sites and counting. http://goc.pragma-grid.net/pragma-doc/datagrid.html. o Gfarm site monitoring has been implemented in SCMSWeb by ThaiGrid team o A lot collaborative efforts among Gfarm developers, site admins and applications drivers on documentation - http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/For_site_administrators, http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/Modprobe_Problem%3F_%28by_Jing -yua n_Luke%2C_MIMOS%2C_Malaysia, http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/Amber_MPI_execution_on_Gfarm. . PRAGMA production CA is in final testing . GIN experiment continues with Savannah - a data-intensive application, driven by David Abramson and Colin Entticot at Monash University, Australia . Peer-grid interoperation with OSG, started applications run by both grids, see http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/OSG-PRAGMA_Grid_Interoperation _Exp eriments . Collaboration in Avian Flu analysis, see http://nbcr.sdsc.edu/news.php?news=48 . More funding and advances for GLEON, http://gleon.org/ . Successful PRIME program into its 4th year, http://prime.ucsd.edu/ . PRIUS grows to 13 organizations in 7 countries, http://prius.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/project/index.html

What else is going on in PRAGMA grid? . New application e-AIRS by KISTI Byungsang Kim and Kum Won Cho, see http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/E-AIRS . CSE-online is integrating with SCMSWeb and will deploy in ThaiGrid and PRAGMA grid . PRAGMA grid paper is accepted for "International Journal of Web and Grid Services" journal publication. 16 authors are working on the paper . 6 sites have implemented GT4WSGram. See http://goc.pragma-grid.net/pragma-doc/resources.html. Sugree will add WSGram realtime monitoring in SCMSWeb. Somsak has documented the steps for setup GT4 WSGRAM on rocks 4.2 at http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/GT4_WSGram_with_SGE_on_ROCKS_4 .2 . Chinese University of HongKong and LanZhou University of China is working to join PRAGMA grid. See http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kon g_%2 8CUHK%29%2C_China and http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/index.php/LZU. . While attending a conference at HCMC in Vietnam, I had an opportunity to meet our IOIT-HCM team. See http://goc.pragma-grid.net/wiki/images/9/97/IOIT-HCM-meet.jpg

Thank you, all!

Cindy