Faculty Working Group

The research cyberinfrastructure working-group is a working-group of the IT Council Subcommittee on Research Computing. The working group is tasked with providing advise to the Center for Research Computing covering all aspects of existing shared high-performance & high-throughput computing, storage and visualization infrastructure. Specifically the shared research cyberinfrastructure working-group is charged with:

  • Advising on cluster queuing policies and setting and approving said policies and guidelines.
  • Advising on research storage policies (/home, /project, /work, and /scratch) and setting and approving said policies & guidelines.
  • Advising and approving hardware and software acquisitions as it relates to future needs for shared compute, storage and visualization cyberinfrastructure.
  • Approving user fees for shared compute, storage and visualization cyberinfrastructure.
  • Developing guidelines for special faculty/user requests and exceptions to be implement by CRC.
  • Acting as a mediator on disputes between users and CRC.

Working group members


Members:

  • Cecilia Clementi, CHEM, working-group chair (3 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Stephen Bradshaw, PHYS (3 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Alan Levander, ESCI (2 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Tayfun Tezduyar, MECH (2 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Amina Qutub, BIOE (3 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Moshe Vardi, CS (2 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Caleb McDaniel, HIST (2 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Social Science, TBA (2 year term starting 8/15/2015)
  • Jan E. Odegard, AVP, Research Computing & Cyberinfrastructure

Ex officio members:

  • Paul Padley, PHYS, chair ITC
  • Klara Jelinkova, Vice President for International Operations and IT
  • Erik Engquist, Director, Center for Research Computing

Standard working group term is 3 years. Above indicated terms is for the purpose of startup to ensure rotation and continuity.