FW: [AG-TECH] Taiwan/Pragma situation

[Terry Disz]

Hello all,

An update on trhe Taiwan PRAGMA situation - We had a teleconference on
Saturday evening summed up as follows by Jim Miller of inSORS.

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The group from Taiwan and Pragma from SDSC conferenced with Futures Lab
group and Jim from inSORS on Saturday to review some technical AG2.0
questions along with other logistics for implementation of AccessGrid
network within 3 Taiwan hospitals.

Once successful, they hope to expand to 7 area hospitals.

They are hoping to allow doctors remote viewing and collaboration of patient
x-rays and other information to provide expert diagnosis and analysis to
combat the SARS crisis.

The group from Taiwan is committed and excited to assist in this endeavor
(they had a long night on their Saturday night, 4-5am, and then were back up
talking with us in US 4-5 hours later).

The Argonne Futures Lab group is working to get them up and running.  We
will keep the community posted if there is anything that needs to be done.

We appreciate everyone's concerns and willingness to help.
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We also learned something about the size of the task. For diagnosis,
treatment follow up and research, they are plannning on dong daily Xrays for
30 days of about 3000 patients. Each Xray is about 1MB, so there is a need
for a lot of storage. The San Diego team is helping with technology advice
from their telescience portal (https://gridport.npaci.edu/Telescience/) that
uses the SRB software for remote storage.

Tom Uram has been busy this weekend working on AG 2.0 installation for the
machines in Taiwan.

The state of AG there is that they have inSORS servers and software and are
trying to decide just how to best deploy AG technology (AG 1.2 or AG 2.0) to
the hospitals.

More as we learn about it.

Terry