Charlie Catlett


Charlie Catlett is a senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a visiting senior fellow at the University of Chicago. From 2020 to 2022 he was a senior research scientist at the University of Illinois. He was previously a senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a senior fellow in the Computation Institute, a joint institute of Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, and a senior fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

Research

From 2007-2011 he was chief information officer and director of the Computing and Information Systems Division at Argonne National Laboratory. From 2004 to 2007 he was director of the TeraGrid Project.
Prior to joining Argonne in 2000, Catlett was chief technology officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He was part of the original team that established NCSA in 1985 and his early work there included participation on the team that deployed and managed the NSFNet. In the early 1990s Catlett participated in the DARPA/NSF Gigabit Testbeds Initiative, coordinated by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
Catlett was the founding chair of the Global Grid Forum from 1999 through 2004.
He has been involved in Grid computing since the early 1990s, when he co-authored a seminal paper "Metacomputing" in the Communications of the ACM, which outlined many of the high-level goals of what is today called Grid computing.

Selected publications

  • "," Charlie Catlett, Pete Beckman, Nicola Ferrier, Michael E. Papka, Rajesh Sankaran, Jeff Solin, Valerie Taylor, Douglas Pancoast, Daniel A. Reed, Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 57-63, 1 Jan.-Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2021.3139405
  • "," Charlie Catlett, Pete Beckman, Nicola Ferrier, Howard Nusbaum, Michael E. Papka, Marc G. Berman, Journal of Social Computing, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2020.
  • "," Charlie Catlett, Pete Beckman, Rajesh Sankaran, Nicola Ferrier, Songha Kim, Yeongho Park, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2019, abstract #IN34A-01.
  • "," Charlie Catlett, Pete Beckman, Rajesh Sankaran, Kate Kusiak Galvin, SCOPE'17: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering, April 2017.
  • "," President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, February 2016.
  • "," Charlie Catlett, Tanu Malika, Brett Goldstein, Jonathan Giuffrida, Yetong Shaoa, Alessandro Panella, Derek Eder, Eric van Zanten, Robert Mitchum, Severin Thalerc, Ian Foster, IEEE Computer Society Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, December 2014, Vol. 37 No. 4
  • "," Charlie Catlett, editor, A report presented to the Department of Energy Office of Science, December 2008.
  • "," Charlie Catlett et al., HPC and Grids in Action, ed. Lucio Grandinetti, IOS Press Advances in Parallel Computing series, Amsterdam, 2008.
  • , U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, May 2004.
  • "", Global Grid Forum Document Series, June 2001.
  • "", Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 1, May 2003.
  • "Winner, IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize 1992
  • "", IEEE Spectrum Magazine, September 1992.
  • "," Larry Smarr and Charlie Catlett, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 35, No. 6, June 1992.