CGrADS Site Visit Participant - Charlie Catlett

Professional Preparation

Charlie Catlett
Senior Fellow, Computation Institute and Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
Argonne National Laboratory

Visiting Scientist, Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair, Global Grid Forum

Appointments:

• 1999-Present: Chair, Grid Forum. General chair of Grid Forum, responsible for establishing steering and advisory teams, oversight of formation and progress of Grid Forum working groups, and coordinating efforts with similar activities in the community. 1999: Chair, NASA NAS Peer review committee. Chaired review of NASA NAS computer science and computational infrastructure research and related activities.
• 1999: Member, Department of Energy Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) Distributed Computing and Communications (DISCOM2) Review Committee. Reviewed research and development activities of Department of Energy laboratories (Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) related to building distributed and large-scale clustered computing environments, applications, and networks for the ASCI program.
• 1998: Chair, ESnet review committee. Chaired 3-year review of the Department of Energy's national networking infrastructure and applied research activities.
• 1996: Chair, National Science Foundation "NAP/RA" Review Team. Chaired review of the "Network Access Point" (NAP) and "Routing Arbiter" (RA) components of NSF's program for commercialization of the NSFNET.
• 1988-Present: Principle Investigator for NCSA federal and industrial projects funded in excess of $20M from 1990 to 1999. (see Grants and Awards)
• 1995-present: Instructor, "Cryptography and Security of Networks and Distributed Systems," Illinois Software Summer School (1995), National Technological University (NTU, 2/96, 10/96, 9/97, 12/98, 6/99), INET'97 (Kuala Lumpur, Malasia, June 1997), INET'98 (Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998), and INET'99 (San Jose, CA, June 1999), SC99 (Portland, OR, Nov 1999). SC99 (Portland, OR, November 1999), INET2000 (Yokohama, Japan, July 2000).
• 1988-Present: Principal Investigator, developed academic/industry technology transfer and research and development programs with American Airlines, Allstate, Boeing, United Technologies, Schlumberger, Shell, JP Morgan, Phillips Petroleum, Sears, Motorola, Eli Lilly, Caterpillar, FMC, Dow Chemical, AMOCO, Eastman Kodak, Cray Research, Convex Computer, Thinking Machines Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard, MCI, AT&T, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Informix, ANSYS, and Akamai.
• 1990-1995: Member, Program Coordination Committee for $15.8M ARPA/NSF funded national program in gigabit applications and network technology, coordinated by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI).
• 1991: Project lead, NCSA "Metacomputer Design Team," developed long-range technology plans for NCSA advanced distributed computing, information access, and local area computing environments.
• 1990-Present: Independent Consultant in HPCC technology for Battelle Pacific Northwest Research Laboratories, Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC, Finland), Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Cisco Systems, United Technologies Research Center, Ascom Hasler (Switz), Max Planck Institute (Germany), European Medium Range Weather Forecasting Center (U.K.), Hewlett-Packard, Busey Bank, NASA, Department of Energy.
• 1991: Instructor, developed and taught 3-day high speed networking workshop in Rome, Italy and London, U.K.

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Synergistic Activities

Charlie Catlett recently joined Argonneís Mathematics and Computer Science Division, after fifteen years of at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. As a founding member of the NCSA team, Catlett was instrumental in establishing NCSA's leading-edge capabilities in networking, distributed systems, metacomputing, and clustering. Charlie was part of the original NSFNET backbone team in the mid 1980's and led NCSA's research in Gigabit networks, becoming Chief Technology Officer in 1996 and serving on the NCSA PACI Alliance executive committee. At Argonne, Catlett will coordinate projects in networking, metacomputing, and computational science.

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