Charlie Catlett

Charlie Catlett (born 1960) is a senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a visiting senior fellow at the University of Chicago.

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[1] and The University of Chicago,[2][3][4] and a senior fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

[5] Prior to joining Argonne in 2000, Catlett was chief technology officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

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.

[1] He has been involved in Grid (distributed) computing since the early 1990s, when he co-authored (with Larry Smarr) a seminal paper "Metacomputing"[6] in the Communications of the ACM, which outlined many of the high-level goals of what is today called Grid computing.