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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
SHANKAR NAMED TeraGrid SITE LEAD
FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Indiana University Vice President Michael McRobbie has announced the
appointment of Anurag Shankar as IU's site lead for the TeraGrid.
The TeraGrid (www.teragrid.org)
is a major national
initiative to
build
the next generation of cyberinfrastructure to enable cutting-edge
computational sciences and technology. In his new capacity, Shankar will
facilitate the integration of IU's substantial computing, massive data
storage, visualization and networking resources, as well as a number of IU's
world-class scientific data repositories, into the TeraGrid. He will also act
as IU's liaison with the national TeraGrid community. Shankar will report to
Bradley Wheeler, associate vice president for the Research and Academic
Computing division of University Information Technology Services (UITS) and
dean of computing at Indiana University Bloomington.
Shankar is a computational astrophysicist by training. After five years of
postdoctoral work in Astronomy at the University of Arizona and IU, Shankar
switched professions. In 1997, after two years as a senior Unix systems
programmer at Brown University, he moved back to IU and has spent the past
seven years managing Unix support and massive data storage at UITS. He is
responsible for building IU's highly popular Unix training effort, the Common
File System (currently in use by over 60,000 students at multiple IU
campuses), the 2.4 petabyte, disaster-proof Massive Data Storage System, and
high-end research computing services for IU's Indiana Genomics Initiative and
other life sciences efforts.
Shankar will be designated IU's principal investigator in an upcoming
TeraGrid
maintenance and operations (M&O) proposal to the National Science Foundation.
The $30 million M&O budget will be divided among the nine TeraGrid sites,
namely San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California-
San Diego; National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the
University of Illinois; Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC); Center for
Advanced Computing Research (CACR) at the California Institute of Technology;
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas; Oak Ridge
National Laboratory; Argonne National Laboratory; Purdue University; and
IU.
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