1 Paul Sheldon Physics & Astronomy Paul Sheldon Physics & Astronomy Welcome! Workshop on High Performance, Fault Adaptive Large Scale Real-Time Systems Workshop on High Performance, Fault Adaptive Large Scale Real-Time Systems Vanderbilt University Nov. 14–15, 2002

2 Physicist Why is a Physicist welcoming you to a workshop on Fault Adaptive Large Scale Systems Fault Adaptive Large Scale Systems ? Growing, diverse community with: challenging apps $ for hardware Who need access to: expertise, tools and methods Growing, diverse Community with: great expertise tools and methods Who would like access to: real applications and hardware Lets work together !!!

3 This is the first in what will be a series of such workshops… Foster collaboration and synergy: Appliers ↔ Experts A model for progress in this field?

4 A few introductions… Conference Secretary Updating/submitting your talk

5 Workshop on High Performance, Fault Adaptive Large Scale Real-Time Systems Workshop on High Performance, Fault Adaptive Large Scale Real-Time Systems Vanderbilt University Nov. 14–15, 2002 Welcome!