Morning Plenary Session 4
| Title: | Panel Discussion on CI with Major Funding Agencies | Speaker: | NSF – Guy Almes – Program Director – Office of Cyberinfrastructure NIH – Peter Highnam – Senior Advisor – Office of the Director, National Center for Research Resources DOE – Mary Anne Scott – Pgm Mgr for Collaboratory Research & ESNet NASA – Tsengdar Lee - Scientific Computing Portfolio Manager, NASA Science Mission Directorate |
| Time: | 10:45 - 11:45 AM |
| Locations: | Camden - Executive Meeting Room - Camden Campus Center Newark - MPR West - Robeson Campus Center New Brunswick - MPR - Busch Campus Center Washington, DC - Internet2 Office  |
| Presentation Details: | This panel will attend from Internet2's office in Washington DC using videoconferencing. Each agency will discuss how cyberinfrastructure will impact their current and future RFPs including the technological expectations the agencies will have for researchers and their groups. A lengthy Q&A period will allow you to pose questions directly to the panel. |
| Speaker Bio: | NSF – Guy Almes is a Program Officer in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. There, he oversees a number of
activities including some related to the Extensible Terascale Facility. While at NSF, Dr. Almes is a 'rotator', whose home institution is the Internet2 project, where he serves as Chief Engineer. Dr. Almes is a
leader and a pioneer in the development of the Internet. He was the founder and director of Sesquinet, an NSFnet regional network for Texas universities, colleges and corporations. He has served as Chairman of the Federation of American Research Networks (FARnet) and Chairman of the Interconnectivity Working Group and the IP Performance Metrics Working Group of the IETF. Dr. Almes was a member of the computer science faculties at the University of Washington and Rice University. The author of many technical papers on operating systems, software and networking, his current research interests are in the design of advanced wide-area networks appropriate for supporting advanced university applications, network performance measurement and analysis, and application of advanced Internet functionality, such as quality of service and multicast protocols. Dr. Almes received his B.A. in Mathematics and Engineering, magna cum laude, and M.E.E. from Rice University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. A native of Texas, Dr. Almes and his family reside near White Plains, New York. |
| Speaker Bio: | DOE - Dr. Mary Anne Scott is a program manager in the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences (MICS) Division of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. For the past eight years she has managed a program of research and development for collaboration technologies that scientists and engineers need to access remote resources and facilities and to collaborate effectively as members of multi-disciplinary distributed teams. Over that time the program has evolved into a number of integrated projects largely focused on developing, advancing and deploying grid technologies in an environment where research scientists and engineers can use these emerging capabilities in advancing their domain specific science applications. She also managed an effort for developing advanced tools that make it easier for programmers to write high performance applications, largely focused on the interoperability of large libraries-the Advanced Computational Testing and Simulation (ACTS) toolkit. The current National Collaboratory program combines a number of infrastructure and middleware projects with real world pilots to test and validate the technology being developed. Details can be found at http://doecollaboratory.pnl.gov/.
Currently, she co-chairs an interagency group, the Middleware and Grid Infrastructure Coordination (MAGIC) Team, which coordinates middleware and grid technologies among Federal research programs and facilitates the coordination among the university, laboratory and commercial communities. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Global Grid Forum organization. Prior to joining MICS in 1994, she was a program manager in the Fusion Energy Sciences Office with responsibility for managing computing resources for that community and for organizing an effort to focus improving the implementation through appropriate planning of resources based on needs and opportunities for that community. |
| Speaker Bio: | NASA - Dr. Tsengdar Lee currently manages the NASA High-End Computing
Portfolio. His responsibility includes managing the high-end computing
investment for the agency; interact and coordinate with other federal
agencies in the high-end computing and networking research and
development; and delivering the computing, computational, networking,
and data services to the scientific research community. He is an
activity member of the interagency working group on high-end computing
infrastructure and application (HEC I&A). He co-authored the Federal
Plan for High End Computing as the result of the OSTP High-End
Computing Revitalization Task Force (HECRTF).
Tsengdar Lee also manages the weather research and data analysis portfolio within NASA Science Mission Directorate. The activities focus on satellite data ingest and data assimilation into the global weather and climate models. His investment in atmospheric data analysis has result in the Modern Era Retrospective-analysis forResearch and Applications - a flagship research and development project. He previously held positions as Senior Technical Advisor, Northrop Grumman Information Technology and Research Scientist with SAIC. He graduated from Colorado State University where he got his Ph.D degree in Atmospheric Science and MS degree in Civil Engineering. |
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