Catlett named Chief Information Officer at Argonne
ARGONNE, Ill. (May 1, 2007) – Argonne National Laboratory has named Charlie
Catlett Chief Information Officer and Division Director of Argonne's Computing
and Information Systems Division. He will assume these responsibilities effective
May 1, 2007.
Catlett brings over two decades of information technology research, development,
and management experience, most recently as Director of the National Science
Foundation's nation-wide TeraGrid initiative and principal investigator of
the TeraGrid's Grid Infrastructure Group, which is a distributed team that
coordinates TeraGrid operations, planning, software integration, and architecture.
Catlett will continue to work with the TeraGrid project in a strategic advisory
role and as chairman of the TeraGrid leadership forum. Dane Skow, Deputy Director
of the TeraGrid's Grid Infrastructure Group since 2005, will assume the role
of principal investigator and director.
Catlett joined Argonne in 2000 as a Senior Fellow at the Computation
Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
He has served in a variety of advisory committees to national infrastructure
programs including the Energy
Sciences Network (ESnet), Internet2,
and National
LambdaRail.
“We are delighted to have Charlie on board. His technical and community-building
skills will be a real asset to the leadership team at the laboratory,” said
Robert Rosner, director, Argonne National Laboratory. “A key aspect of the
laboratory's strategic plan is a new initiative called the ‘Digital Laboratory,'
that recognizes information technology as a catalyst to improving Argonne's
ability to do science. Charlie's experience and skills will be essential in
completing that initiative.”
In 1999 Catlett founded Global Grid Forum, now Open
Grid Forum, the leading
international standards body focused on distributed systems and “grid” middleware
standards, developing the organization as general chairman during its first
five years. From 1999-2004 Catlett also directed the I-WIRE optical network
project, deploying dark fiber and transport infrastructure to interconnect
ten locations in Illinois.
Prior to joining Argonne in 2000, Catlett was Chief Technology Officer at the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA), overseeing all IT services,
research, development, and support for academic and commercial application users.
As part of the team that established NCSA in 1985, Catlett was responsible for
NCSA's participation in creating NSFNET, which evolved into today's Internet.
Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology.
The nation's first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic
and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne
researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities,
and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific
problems, advance America 's scientific leadership and prepare the nation for
a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed
by UChicago
Argonne, LLC for
the U.S.
Department of Energy's Office
of Science.
For more information, please contact Matthew Howard (630-252-7930 or mhoward@anl.gov)
at Argonne.
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