Stephen L. Scott (scottsl@ornl.gov) is a senior research scientist in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory – USA. Dr. Scott’s research interest is in experimental systems with a focus on high performance distributed, heterogeneous, and parallel computing. He is a founding member of the Open Cluster Group (OCG) and Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) – and has served in the capacity of both release manager and working group chair. Stephen has published numerous papers on cluster and distributed computing and has both a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science; is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer, and the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing.