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Al Geist received his B.A. in mathematics and psychology from Duke University in 1978 and joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1983 after receiving a B.S. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University. He is currently leader of the Network and Cluster Computing Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division.

Presently Al heads up a national effort to standardize system software for supercomputers. He is also leading an effort to establish a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Grid across the office of science labs. Al heads up one of the three national Genomes to Life research initiatives. He is the principal investigator on a project to create a new class of scalable, fault-tolerant algorithms for future generations of supercomputers and is program manager of the heterogeneous distributed computing project called Harness.
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