[OSCAR Keynote Address]
  "Challenges and Opportunities at the Mid-range of Cluster Computing"
   by Dr. Dan C. Stanzione Jr
   Monday May 17, 2004
   11:15-12:15am


   BIO:
     Dr. Dan C. Stanzione Jr. is currently employed
     at the National Science Foundation, where he
     serves as an American Association for the
     Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and
     Technology Policy Fellow.  Before coming to
     NSF, Dan was on the faculty at Clemson
     University, where he oversaw the design
     and implementation of the Clemson Computational
     Mini-Grid.  He has a BS in electrical engineering,
     and an MS and PhD in computer engineering from
     Clemson.  Dan is also currently the author
     of the cluster administration column, "Herding
     Penguins" for "ClusterWorld" magazine.

   Title and Abstract:
     "Challenges and Opportunities at the Mid-range
     of Cluster Computing"

     While significant achievements have been made in both
     computation and science at the very high end, concentrated
     in a few supercomputing centers, or on home-brew Linux clusters
     of a few nodes, most of the computational science work that gets
     accomplished is done somewhere in the middle.

     This middle cries out for clustering "best practices" to get
     science done, and the success and continuing opportunity
     for OSCAR is in filling this need.

     Many areas remain to expand and improve these practices,
     significantly in programming models and training of future
     computational scientists.  This talk will speculate on some
     of these challenges, and discuss the role OSCAR can play in
     meeting them.