SURAgrid Governance Committee

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SURAgrid Strategic Plan 2008-2012

SURAgrid is a consortium of institutions and organizations collaborating and combining resources to create a distributed high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure (cyberinfrastructure) for the SURA region.

The SURAgrid Governance Committee is an elected body charged with two core purposes:

• Ensuring that institutions and organizations investing in SURAgrid have an appropriate role in its governance; and

• Supporting the sustainable growth of active community participation and cooperative engagement in enhancing the SURAgrid infrastructure.

In May 2009, the current SURAgrid Governance Committee (SGC) was elected by the SURAgrid membership in accordance with the SURAgrid Governance Document.  The SGC (8 elected, 1 appointed by SURA) members are:

• Amy Apon, University of Arkansas (term expires 2010)
• Gary Crane, Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA appointed member)
• David Matthews-Morgan, University of Georgia (term expires May 2011)
• John-Paul Robinson, University of Alabama at Birmingham (term expires 2010)
• Mike Sachon, Old Dominion University (term expires 2010)
• Phil Smith, Texas Tech University (term expires 2011)
• Eduardo Socolovsky, Norfolk State University (term expires 2011)
• Nicholas Tsinoremas, University of Miami (term expires 2011)
• Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University (term expires 2010)

Amy Apon
Gary Crane
David Matthews-Morgan
Mike Sachon
Phil Smith
Eduardo Socolovsky
Nicholas Tsinoremas
Art Vandenberg
John-Paul Robinson

*** New SURAgrid Membership Rules

One of the SGC's first tasks was to recommend a SURAgrid membership criteria and a process for evaluation and approval of applications for SURAgrid membership.  In October 2007, the SURAgrid general membership approved the SGC membership proposal, and the new process for joining SURAgrid is documented in the SURAgrid Membership Rules dated October 18, 2007.