PRAGMA: The Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) is an open organization in which Pacific Rim institutions collaborate to develop grid-enabled applications and 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.PR AGMA provides an international testbed for developing and evaluating cyberinfrastructure Middleware and is currently extending this testbed to include sensor networks. Further details can be found at: www.pragma-grid.net/

As a part of PRAGMA telescience group, in collaboration with the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) Taiwan, researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) deployed RBNB DataTurbine to acquire data from underwater cameras (in the ocean) at Kenting. Kenting's national park is located on the southernmost tip of Taiwan. The area has a tropical climate with diversified terrain, plentiful wildlife and a dazzling coral reef which is a subject to active research. A system of underwater cameras facilitates marine researchers to monitor the coral reef and the life around it. In this paper we describe our effort to integrate sensors (more specifically the underwater video cameras) with computing and storage Grids to create a complete fabric for conducting e-Science. The system is currently used for observation by marine research scientists at the Biodiversity Research Center of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.  To the best of our knowledge, this is the first real-world deployment that acquires data in real-time from a network of underwater cameras. Here are some deployment pictures.