Center for Computation and Technology: Difference between revisions

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In 2003, the Center for Applied Information Technology and Learning (LSU CAPITAL) was integrated as a full research center on LSU's campus as part of the Governor's Vision 2020 plan, and then renamed the Center for Computation & Technology.

CCT's first director was [[Ed Seidel]]. Seidel led the CCT from 2003 to 2008, then accepted a position as director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI). CCT faculty members Stephen David Beck and [[Jorge Pullin]] served as Interim Co-directors from 2008- to 2010. In December 2010, Joel Tohline, the interim director of the original LSU CAPITAL, was named CCT director.

Other faculty and executive staff members at the CCT included [[Gabrielle Allen]], computer scientist and co-creator of the [[Cactus Framework]]; [[Thomas Sterling (computing)|Thomas Sterling]], former [[NASA]] scientist and co-creator of the [[Beowulf (computing)|Beowulf class cluster]] that is a building block of the world's [[supercomputer]]s; and [[Susanne Brenner]], recipient of the 2005 [[Humboldt Research Award]].