PRAGMA 32 Program

Pre-PRAGMA Activities

PRAGMA 32 Program (PDF)

Time Activity
Apr 1st-2nd CENTRA Smart Cities Student Hackathon, 335 Benton Hall, UF Campus
Apr 10-11th CENTRA-2 All-hands, Hilton UF
Apr 12th SUNTOWNS Workshop, Hilton UF
Apr 12th Lake Modeling Workshop, 335 Benton Hall, UF Campus
Apr 12th CENTRA/SUNTOWNS/PRAGMA Dinner
6:00 PM: Shuttle departure from UF Hilton to dinner location
6:30 PM: Dinner at The Historic Thomas Center, Gainesville


Thursday, April 13th, Hilton UF

Time Activity
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-8:50 Welcome statements
Dr. Renato Figueiredo, PRAGMA-32 General Chair
Dr. John Harris, ECE Department Chair, University of Florida
8:50-9:30 Keynote
Dr. Peter Arzberger, PRAGMA Steering Committee Chair
"PRAGMA 2024: Building on Fifteen Years of Experience in Preparing for the Future"
9:30-10:30 Student/poster lightning talks
Session chair: Kensworth Subratie, University of Florida
10:30-11:40 Group photo
Break and poster session
11:40-12:30 Demo session I
Session chair: Dr. Jason Haga, AIST, Japan

"Virtual cluster image sharing on the PRAGMA cloud testbed",
Shava Smallen, UCSD, USA

"Towards Enhancing Usability and Modularity of the PRAGMA Cloud Scheduler",
Nannapas Banluesombatkul, Thammasat University, Thailand
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Steering Committee update
Working group and expedition updates

Resources working group
Telescience working group
Bioscience working group
Cyberlearning working group
Lake expedition
14:45-15:15 Coffee break
Posters will be available
15:15-17:00 Working group and expedition breakouts
Resources working group
Telescience working group
Bioscience working group
Cyberlearning working group
Lake expedition
17:00 Adjourn
18:00-21:00 Dinner and special evening program
Group will walk from Hilton hotel to the venue,
Florida Museum of Natural History


Friday, April 14th, Hilton UF

Time Activity
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 Demo session II
Session chair: Dr. Kohei Ichikawa, NAIST, Japan
"River Disaster Management Application for Collaborative Visualization",
Jason Haga, AIST, Japan

"Demonstration of IPoP Overlay VPN Application in Distributed Processing of Video Streams",
Vahid Daneshmand, University of Florida, USA

"Dynamic Work-groups for IoT and Cloud Systems",
Kensworth Subratie, University of Florida, USA
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
Posters will be available
10:30-12:30 Working group and expedition breakouts II
12:30-14:00 Lunch and PRAGMA SC meeting
14:00-15:15 Demo session III
Session chair: Dr. Jason Haga, AIST, Japan
"Prototyping distributed sensor networks using Amazon Web Services",
Dave Stanton, Appirio

"Global reference model and global garbage collection in the Dripcast",
Ikuo Nakagawa, Osaka University, Japan

"Multi-tenant data center experiment on PRAGMA-ENT",
Kyuho Jeong, University of Florida, USA
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
Posters will be available
15:45-16:30 Working group and expedition updates
16:30-16:45 Best poster awards
16:45-17:30 Steering committee summary
PRAGMA-32 wrap-up
Welcome to PRAGMA-33
17:30 Adjourn
18:30-20:00 Dinner, UF Hilton Hotel


Saturday, April 15th

Time Activity
08:00-18:00 Wrap-up / Cross working group discussions / Cultural learning