Subject: management structure
Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:10:19 -0500
Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox <gcf@npac.syr.edu>
Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:53:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "M. Y. Hussaini" <myh@scri.fsu.edu>
To: gcf@npac.syr.edu

Geoffrey,

Appended below is the first draft of the Mangement Structure.
Should I include the names of the members of the Advisory Board
and Review Board. Please feel free to edit/revise. Please keep in
mind it cannot be more than a page. Thank you.

Yousuff
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\section{Management Structure}
The School of Computational Science and Information Technology
has three arms -- research, education and an infrastructure to
support the research and education agenda. The infrastructure
is called the Computational and Information Science Laboratory (CISL).
This Laboratory is managed by the Associate Director, Geoffrey Fox.
The high-performance computing infrastructure which the present proposal
addresses will be in CISL.

\subsection{Organizational Structure}
\noindent
{Director: }The Director is responsible for accomplishing the School's
goals and objectives (its vision and mission) and for making budgetary
and operational decisions. He relies on the steering committee (which
includes the Associate Directors of Research, Education and Computational
and Information Science Laboratory) and other formal and informal mechanisms
for input and advice.

\noindent
{\bf Advisory Board : }
The School's operation is overseen by the Advisory Board
which consists of the deans of the participating colleges and schools
and other distinguished leaders in the field. They are appointed
by the Provost who chairs the Board. The Board sets
the direction of the School, provides broad guidance and advice, and
oversees financial management. It meets quarterly or as necessary to review
the School's adherence to the policies and procedures set by the Board,
and review the observations and recommendations of the Review Board.

\noindent
{\bf Review Board: }
The members of the Review Board are drawn from industry, national labs
and academia.  They are appointed by the Provost at the recommendation
of the Director. The review Board
i) advises the Director in implementing the directives set by the
BoG and in selecting the science projects, ii) monitors fast-breaking
scientific opportunities and iii) evaluates the School's performance
and makes recommendations for the future. It meets biannually or as
deemed necessary. However, in between meetings regular e-mail and/or
telephone discussions will take place.

\noindent
{bf Steering Committee: }
The Steering Committee is composed of the three Associate Directors
for research, education and infrastructure and other
distinguished members of the faculty with interests relevant
to the School. This committee is appointed by the Director
who also chairs it. It assists the Director in all functions of
School management such as maintaining interdisciplinary high-performance
computing focus, facilitating technology transfer, raising and
allocating resources, continuously assessing performance and
planning future activities.

\noindent
{\bf User Committee: }
This committee is appointed by the Associate Director of CISL to
assist him in maintaining the state-of-the-art hardware/software
infrastructure and resource allocation.

\noindent
{\bf Administrative and Technical Staff: }
To ensure the smooth operation of the School and to maintain a
working environment conducive to the conduct of cutting-edge research,
there is initially an office manager, a senior accountant, a budget
coordinator and a secretary. CISL has now four technical staff --
a systems administrator, two assistant systems administrators and a network
specialist. There are a few software professionals.
Additional permanent and temporary staff may be hired as warranted.
