SURA IT Committee - Regional CASC Meeting

8:00am - Continental Breakfast

8:30am - Welcome and Overview - Jerry Draayer – SURA President

8:40am - The Importance of Grid Computing for SCOOP - Phillip Bogden – SCOOP Director

9:00am - Vision for an IBM Distributed Regional Grid Service - Ed Seidel - LSU

9:30am - IBM Partnership Proposal and Power5 Overview - Ravi Arimilli – IBM Fellow

Ravi Arimilli is an IBM Fellow and Chief Architect and is largely responsible for development of the IBM Power 5 architecture. He has won IBM's Inventor of the Year award each year since 1998 and is the youngest IBM fellow. He has 300 patents to his name and is currently listed among the top 10 patent holders alive in the USA. Ravi is regarded as IBM's leading expert on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system structures, cache/memory hierarchies and system bus protocols.

10:30am - SURA - IBM Programmatic Partnership - Janis Landry-Lane IBM - Higher Ed & Deep Computing Segment Executive

11:00am - NSF OCI Overview and Current Programs - Jose Munoz - Deputy Office Director/Senior Scientific Advisor – NSF Office of the Director

12:00 - Noon Lunch

12:30pm - Working Session Gary Crane / Ed Seidel

6:30pm - IT Committee – SURA CASC member joint dinner – Location: Sheraton Four Points