RTP, NC – MCNC, a non-profit established to advance technology related economic development in the state, announced that grid computing expert Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch will leads its grid computing initiatives.
As managing director of MCNC’s Grid Computing & Networking Services company, Gentzsch will direct MCNC’s grid strategy and technology development, including the development of one of the nation’s first statewide research and education grids. Previously, Gentzsch was senior director of grid computing for Sun Microsystems. As senior director of grid computing for Sun Microsystems since July 2000, Gentzsch was responsible for Sun’s grid computing vision, strategy and technology development.
“Dr. Gentzsch is the visionary who North Carolina needs to accomplish its most ambitious computing initiative in history,” said Dave Rizzo, MCNC’s chief executive officer and president.
MCNC, in partnership with the University of North Carolina and its 16-campus university system, launched the multi-year, multi-million dollar North Carolina Grid Initiative last fall to add a grid computing infrastructure and resources to its existing North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). The statewide network, operated by MCNC, provides advanced communications services, video services for distance learning, high-speed Internet access, and access to national research networks for public and private universities throughout North Carolina.
Grid computing is an emerging technology providing users with unprecedented computing power, services and information no matter where the resources are located. Multiple computing platforms and data sources on the grid operate, and appear to a user, as a single computing system.
Gentzsch said that working with MCNC provides him with the opportunity to further develop and deploy emerging grid technologies. “MCNC has an established reputation for its innovative contributions to networking, supercomputing, and grid technologies. North Carolina’s state government, the universities and the local industry are already aware of the benefits of grid computing. It is exciting to lead an initiative that will not only impact the future of computing but will play such an important role in North Carolina’s economic advancement.”
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