Charlie Catlett,
CIO Argonne National Laboratory
Charlie Catlett is CIO of Argonne National Laboratory, Director of Argonne's Computing and Information Systems Division, and a Senior Fellow at the Argonne / University of Chicago Computation Institute.
From 2004-2007 Charlie directed the NSF TeraGrid project, a collaboration of fourteen universities and laboratories employing middleware and a dedicated optical network to provide integrated High- Performance services to over 4,000 researchers and educators across the US. Charlie initiated efforts in 2006 to develop campus partnerships, resulting in a pilot "campus cyberinfrastructure day" program with Internet2, EDUCAUSE, and other partners and testbeds exploring Shibboleth and InCommon to allow TeraGrid access using campus credentials.
In 1999 Charlie founded Global Grid Forum (GGF), an international standards body for "grid" standards. As chairman from 1999-2004, he established processes, policies, and governance.
From 1999-2004 Charlie directed I-WIRE, deploying fiber and transport infrastructure to ten locations in Illinois to support optical services for major projects including ESnet, TeraGrid, Optiputer, and Starlight.
From 1996-1999 Charlie was Chief Technology Officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. In 1986 Charlie participated in the deployment of NSFNET.
In 1992 his team designed and operated NCSA's web infrastructure during the web's exponential growth following NCSA's release of the Mosaic web browser.
In 1992 Charlie and Larry Smarr co-authored the paper "Metacomputing," in the Communications of the ACM, outlining the concept of Grid computing. He serves on science and policy advisory committees for Internet2, NLR, and NSF's Global Environment for Networking Initiatives (GENI).