PRAGMA 14 website unveils

January 16th, 2008 | Upcoming Events

Welcome to PRAGMA 14!

Dear Colleagues:

On behalf of the PRAGMA 14 hosts and the organizing committee, we have the great honor and pleasure of welcoming our friends and colleagues from PRAGMA member institutions to the PRAGMA 14 Workshop. We also extend our warm welcome to colleagues from Laboratories of NARL family, industrial partners, and those institutions whose members have never attended a PRAGMA workshop, but are interested in building sustainable collaborations and helping with the development of grid technologies through real applications.

PRAGMA14, hosted by the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) of the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) in Taiwan, will be held on 11-12 March at National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, with pre-workshop tutorials scheduled on 10 March. The CREON Integration meeting (Coral Reef Environmental Observatory Network) follows on 13-14 March at National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Kenting. Please visit the PRAGMA14 website for updated information and registration.

The workshop is now calling for Demonstrations and Posters. Please refer to “Call for Posters/Demos” at the workshop website for more detailed information. The deadline for submission of Demos/Posters is18 Feb, with notification to the authors announced on 25 Feb.

Contacts
If you have any question regarding visas, invitation letters, registration, program, and travel arrangements, please contact the workshop secretariat:

Hsiu-Mei Chou Email: mailto:mhmchou@nchc.org.tw
Tel: +886-3-5776085 ext. 309; Fax: +886-3-5773620

For requirements regarding your demo, please send the requests to:
Weicheng Huang Email: whuang@nchc.org.tw
Tel: +886-3-5776085 ext. 323; Fax: +886-3-5773538

Tutorials enrollment & inquiries:
Hsiu-Mei Chou Email: hmchou@nchc.org.tw
Tel: +886-3-5776085 ext. 309; Fax: +886-3-5773620

Dates to Remember
18 January - Registration Opens
18 February - Demo/Poster submissions are due
25 February - Authors notification
22 February - Registration Closes at 12:00 (GMT+08:00)
23 February - Registration Cancellation due

Program At-A-Glance (Full Agenda in PDF)
10 March (Monday) Pre-Workshop Tutorials
PRAGMA-14 Welcome Reception
11 March (Tuesday) Workshop Day 1
12 March (Wednesday) Workshop Day 2
13 March (Thursday) CREON Integration Meeting Day 1
14 March (Friday) CREON Integration Meeting Day 2

For more information, please see the PRAGMA 14 website at: http://www.nchc.org.tw/event/2008/pragma

We look forward to seeing you at PRAGMA 14!

Fang-Pang Lin, Manager, Grid Application Division, NCHC

On behalf of the PRAGMA14 General Chairs and Co-Chairs:
Peter Arzberger, PI, PRAGMA, UCSD, USA; Chair, PRAGMA Steering Committee
Eugene Yeh, Director, NCHC, NARL, Taiwan
Whey-Fone Tsai, Deputy Director, NCHC, NARL, Taiwan
Fang-Pang Lin, NCHC, NARL, Taiwan; Chair, PRAGMA 14
Habibah Wahab, USM, Malaysia; Chair, PRAGMA 15 and Co-Chair, PRAGMA 14
Radha Nandkumar, NCSA, UIUC, USA; Chair, PRAGMA 13 and Co-Chair, PRAGMA 14
Piyawut (Joe) Srichaikul, NECTEC, Thailand; Co-Chair, PRAGMA Steering Committee