SURAgrid Governance Committee

Call Notes:

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 2008, 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:

• P.R. Blackwell, Stephen F. Austin State University (1 year term)
• Gary Crane, Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA appointed member)
• Jason Hale, University of Mississippi (1 year term)
• Steve Johnson, Texas A&M University (1 year term)
• Dan Katz, Louisiana State University (2 year term)
• John-Paul Robinson, University of Alabama at Birmingham (2 year term)
• Mike Sachon, Old Dominion University (2 year term)
• Phil Smith, Texas Tech University (1 year term)
• Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University (2 year term)

For the next year, Art Vandenberg and John-Paul robinson are serving as the chair and co-chair of the SGC. Issue for consideration by the SGC can be sent to the SGC chair, Art Vandenberg and/or co-chair, 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.