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Randy Butler - Background. 1 st 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
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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