HPC Steering Committee

The role of the committee is to:

Advises the Vice President for Research on use of institutional matching funds for HPC,
Advises the CIO on HPC needs for university data center space,
Identifies proposals that require planning for facilities,
Connects researchers with similar computing needs,
Build HPC Community,
Encourages collaborative HPC efforts and proposals,
Sets the direction for campus HPC, and
Coordinates ISU efforts in the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation.

Name	Committee Role	Title	Unit
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian	Chair	Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kristen Constant	Co-Sponsor with VPR	Vice President and Chief Information Officer	Office of the CIO
James Reecy	Representative	Associate Vice President for Research	Office of VPR
Arne Hallam	Representative	Associate Dean for Research	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Hridesh Rajan	Representative	Professor and Chair	Computer Science
Arun Somani	Representative	Associate Dean for Research	College of Engineering
Monica Lamm	Representative	Associate Professor	Chemical & Biological Engineering
Iddo Friedberg	Representative	Associate Professor	Vet Microbiology & Preventive Medicine
Zhengyuan Zhu	Representative	Professor	Statistics
James Koltes	Representative	Assistant Professor	College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Caroline Westort	Representative	Associate Professor	Landscape Architecture
Marina Kraeva	Ex-Officio	Manager of High Performance Computing	Information Technology Services: Academic Technologies