Randy Butler's Journey: Leading Innovative Teams at NCSA
Randy Butler shares his professional journey from the 80s to present, leading key projects in networking, security, and grid research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Randy Butler's Journey: Leading Innovative Teams at NCSA
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Randy Butler - Background • 1st Professional project – helped develop and eventually support a Geographic Information Service for the 5 Illinois State Surveys in the mid 80’s. • Joined NCSA in 1987 and worked briefly as part of the visualization group • Since that time I have led and created a number of NCSA teams including; • Network production • Network Research • Security Production • Security Research • Grid Research National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Key projects that shape my views • Networking Research and Infra. projects • BLANCA Gigabit Network a DARPA funded high speed network research grant • NCSA network infrastructure advancements • vBNS – high-speed research network connecting the NSF Supercomputer Centers • SC93 – Led the HIPPI network activities • StarTap • Security Projects • Air Force funded cryptography project • GGF PKI Policy co-Chair • MyProxy • NCASSR • Grid Projects • I-WAY • The Metacenter • NCSA Alliance and the national scale PKI • Grid-in-a-Box • NEESgrid • LTERgrid • NMI GRIDS Center National Center for Supercomputing Applications