Mike Vildibill

SDSC Senior Fellow

Director, Government Programs Office
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
9540 Towne Centre Drive, Mailstop: USAN05-202
San Diego, CA 92121

Email: mikev@sun.com
Voice: 858-526-9472

Synopsis

Formerly the director of the High-End Computing program at UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer Center, Mike Vildibill is now an industrial affiliate of SDSC through the SDSC Senior Fellows program. While at SDSC Vildibill was responsible for the HPC Production Systems, Archival Storage Systems, Security, Enterprise Networking, Network Research programs, Data Center Operations, Scientific Computing Services, and Scientific Applications groups. Vildibill was also SDSC's TeraGrid Site Lead and principal investigator and founding director of the California Next Generation Internet Application Center (CalNGI) facility. Vildibill was Principal Investigator on federal agency projects including SDSC's Internet2 connection project funded by the NSF's Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, and the Biological Databases project, funded by the NSF's Division of Biological Infrastructure.

Involvement in committees and advisory panels have included founding membership in the Sun Microsystems HPC Consortium, participation on the Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos ASCI 30 TeraOps RFP Development and Review Team, and a contributing member of the acclaimed DOE Tera-Scale Computing Valuation Committee.

Mr. Vildibill is a member of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) Board of Directors, is a member of the State of California's Next Generation Internet Advisory Council, sits on the National University Institute for Community Research & Civic Entrepreneurship advisory board, and is a member of the San Diego State University (SDSU) School of Business Alumni Advisory Council.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). SDSC administers the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) program and is one of four sites comprising the TeraGrid project, both funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides products, services & support solutions for building and maintaining network computing environments. Sun sells scalable computer systems, high speed microprocessors and a line of high performance software with 2001 revenues of $18.3B. More corporate information is available on-line.

Mr. Vildibill has a B.S. degree in Computer Science / Mathematics from San Diego State University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the same institution.
Email: mikev@sdsc.edu . High performance computer systems deployed at SDSC during my time there. And, some of my favorite bookmarks. (Last Update: 01/01/1999)