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SDSC NAMES VIJAY SAMALAM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California-San Diego announced that Vijay Samalam has been appointed SDSC executive director. In this role, Samalam will report to the SDSC director, Francine Berman.

"As executive director, Vijay will be an outstanding addition to a strong team of leaders at SDSC designing, developing and deploying a national Cyberinfrastructure," said Berman. "His strong technical background, outstanding management skills and service orientation are already helping SDSC provide a model for a next-generation Cyberinfrastructure Center."

Samalam joined SDSC in 2003 as program director of networking. Previous to coming to SDSC, Samalam was vice president for architecture and chief technology officer for Lucent Technologies' core switching division, where he oversaw the development of the company's next generation optical network. He also worked for more than a dozen years with GTE Laboratories.

Before entering the data communications industry, Samalam researched and taught at the University of Florida where his main focus was solid-state physics.

"SDSC provides an opportunity to work with an outstanding interdisciplinary staff on some of science's most challenging problems," said Samalam. "I look forward to working with the SDSC team and I believe that we can make a real difference."

To read an interview with Samalam about this appointment, please see the Sept. 24 issue of HPCwire at www.hpcwire.com.