Jorge Audy is a Professor of Computer Science and Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Information Systems and is currently involved in projects related to global software development and project management.

César De Rose is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. His primary research interests are parallel and distributed computing and parallel architectures. He is currently conducting research on a variety of topics applied to clusters and grids, including resource management, resource monitoring, and distributed allocation strategies.

Dr. De Rose received a PhD in Computer Science from the University Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1998. He currently leads the Research Center in High Performance Computing (CPAD - PUCRS/HP) at PUCRS.

Mark K. Smith is the Managing Director of the Gelato Federation. He works with Federation members and sponsors around the world, fostering collaborative relationships among members, sponsors, and the general community to advance the Linux-Itanium platform. Mark leads a technical team at University of Illinois and dedicates time to educating the general community about the advantages of the platform. Prior to joining Gelato, he worked in the software industry for 10 years. Mark holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Eric Wynne Moore is a Senior Software Engineer working in the Software Products Division at Intel Corporation. In the past, he has worked at Rational, Microsoft, RealAudio, Digital, Compaq, and Keane. His specialties include operating systems, compilers, high-performance computing, and performance tuning. In the last couple of years, Moore has trained more than 500 engineers in performance optimization, including engineers at PNNL, CIA, FBI, IBM, Dell, Hewlett Packard, SGI, Cisco, Intel, several universities, as well as all over the world, including and around Korea, China, Brazil, and Europe.

Mark Davis is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel. He serves as an architect of Intel's Itanium Compiler Lab, providing high-quality, high-performance compilers for enterprise-class Itanium platforms. He has also been co-manager of the Itanium Compiler Development team, and co-manager of the Itanium code generator. Mark has specialized in compiler optimizations, performance analysis, and architecture design in his career. At Digital/Compaq, he worked on the GEM compiler for Alpha, and was technical lead when GEM was targeted to Itanium. As compiler lead at Stellar/Stardent, he helped design the world's first graphics supercomputer and delivered high performance compilers for it. While at Intermetrics, he was a language designer in DoD's competition for the Ada language and then was technical lead for an Ada compiler; later he helped design and became technical director of a highly-optimizing PL/I compiler developed for IBM.

Dr. Davis received his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Since July 1995, Dr. Walfredo Cirne has been a Professor at UFCG, acting as a researcher in distributed and parallel computing, advisor of MS and PhD students, and teacher of graduate and undergraduate classes. Previous to 1997, Dr. Cirne worked on computer networks and machine learning. Since then, his research has focused on grid computing. Currently, he coordinates one of the greatest research projects in computational grids in Brazil, OurGrid, a project developed in cooperation with HP that aims to provide a complete grid solution for bag-of-tasks applications, and includes the search of good out-of-the-box performance for grid middleware running on Itanium.

Dr. Cirne holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego, and has published dozens of papers in the main international publications and computer science conferences.

Sverre Jarp is the Chief Technology Officer in CERN's openlab for DataGrid Application, which is a joint collaboration with industry in order to assess leading-edge information technology for the Large Hadron Collider's Computing Grid in 2007.

He has been working in computing at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, for over 28 years and has held various managerial and technical positions promoting advanced but cost-effective computing solutions for the Laboratory. In 2001-02, he spent a sabbatical year at the HP Labs (Palo Alto, USA) working on software for the Itanium Processor Family. His current field of interest is, in particular, compiler optimization.

S.Jarp holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Shin-Ming Liu is the Project Manager for High-Level Optimization and GCC of the Itanium C/C++ Compiler Section of the Java, Compiler, and Tools Lab at HP in Cupertino, California. Liu led the development effort for the high-level optimization and code generator project in compiler targeted for the Itanium processor. In this project, he helped redesigned the high-level optimization into a highly-robust, scalable, and efficient component by rearchitecting the infrastructure, from which many new techniques were developed. Many highly-recognized programming analysis methods were adopted as well. Liu led the reinvention of compiler development methodology by focusing on modulization, memory footprint control, canonical internal representation, and automatic error detection. Before joining HP, he worked at MIPS/SGI in the area of compiler front end, middle end, back end, and linker. During that time, he co-authored several technical publications.

Peter Chubb is a Senior Research Engineer at National ICT Australia and a Research Officer at UNSW. He completed his PhD under Associate Professor John Lions in 1989. Peter worked at Softway Pty Ltd as a consultant and software engineer doing UNIX kernel, security, and embedded work. He joined Gelato@UNSW at its inception in 2002.

Peter started using UNIX in 1979 and has never used Microsoft operating systems for more than a few moments. His home life includes wife Lucy, who also works at Gelato@UNSW, and two small daughters. Peter's hobbies include music (he runs a recorder consort), aquaria (3 tanks at present, no room for more), and fine wines.

Paul Cohen is a Performance Tools Product Line Marketing Manager at Intel. He is responsible for Intel tools targeted at improving the performance of customer applications. His current focus is on improving usability of VTune Performance Analyzer, making it a robust enterprise-grade solution able to deal with extremely large executables (100MB+) that other products are unable to profile. In addition, he is working on integration of the VTune Analyzer with Intel C and FORTAN compliers under Eclipse with the ability to provide a close connection between Intel compiler optimization reports and performance bottlenecks represented in the VTune Analyzer.

Mile Dzelalija is a Professor of Physics at the University of Split. He received his PhD in 1995 at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, with the thesis "Entropy in Au + Au Reactions at Relativistic Energies" after researching at the GSI, Darmstadt, Germany. Recently, he has been very active in quality assurance in education at the university and national level.

Dzelalija's main research interests include: simulations and data analysis of heavy-ion reactions (FOPI and CBM experiments at the GSI, Darmstadt), and Higgs boson and supersymmetry particles observability in high-energy experiments (future CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN in Geneva), especially in determining some global properties of reaction systems and new particles. He is also interested in experimental and theoretical research activities in Biomechanics, Environmental Physics, and Physics in Conservation of Fine Arts. In 2004 as part of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) project sponsored by HP, the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Education at the University of Split received two Itanium machines. The focus of the project is to design, enhance, port, and tune the Faculty's own or third-party applications to the Itanium architecture in order to achieve better results regarding the time and precision of the results. The Faculty intends to integrate their computer systems into this grid project.

As a member of the Linux Performance and Scalability team within HP's Linux and Open Source Lab (LOSL), Lee Schermerhorn works on performance engineering for Linux, primarily on HP Integrity (Itanium) platforms, with emphasis on NUMA scheduling/affinity and (storage) IO performance.

Alvaro Coutinho is the Director of the Center for Parallel Computing and a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE) at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and is also a Research Fellow with the Brazilian National Scientific Research Council. Coutinho's areas of current research include: new algorithms for improving processor efficiency in unstructured grid parallel computations, a computational environment for petroleum systems modeling, and the GRAD-GIGA project, a computational grid for high-performance computing.

Coutinho received MSc and DSc degrees in Civil Engineering from UFRJ and has published 62 journal papers and 250 conference papers.

Peter Chubb is a Senior Research Engineer at National ICT Australia and a Research Officer at UNSW. He completed his PhD under Associate Professor John Lions in 1989. Peter worked at Softway Pty Ltd as a consultant and software engineer doing UNIX kernel, security, and embedded work. He joined Gelato@UNSW at its inception in 2002.

Peter started using UNIX in 1979 and has never used Microsoft operating systems for more than a few moments. His home life includes wife Lucy, who also works at Gelato@UNSW, and two small daughters. Peter's hobbies include music (he runs a recorder consort), aquaria (3 tanks at present, no room for more), and fine wines.

Hugo Daniel Scolnik is a Professor in the Computer Sciences Department (that he founded in 1984) at the School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) where he teaches Cryptography, Numerical Analysis, and Optimization. For his Gelato-related work, Scolnik co-directed a Gelato-sponsored project comparing 64- and 32-bit architectures from the point of view of their performance for scientific programming. Scolnik is also currently directing three of his five graduate students on Gelato-related theses.

Beyond his work at UBA, Scolnik was an international consultant for United Nations agencies, HP, and Hitachi. He has been a Visiting Professor in several countries. He represents Argentina on the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 7 (TC7). He has published papers on Optimization, Numerical Analysis, Automata Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Mathematical Modeling, and has refereed several journals. In 2003, Scolnik won the Konex Award for the best trajectory in Science and Technology for the 1993-2003 decade in the area of Informatics.

Scolnik received a Licenciado en Ciencias Matemáticas at the University of Buenos Aires in 1964, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1970.

Dan Magenheimer is a senior scientist working for HP Labs, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Dan joined HP in 1982 as a member of the processor architecture team that developed PA-RISC; he wrote the first PA-RISC simulator, remote debugger, object-code emulator (for the 16-bit HP3000), integer multiplication algorithm, and linker.

From 1985 until 2001, he managed various software teams in HP's software, server, and storage divisions. Returning to HP Labs in 2001, Dan joined a team investigating security and virtualization on the Itanium platform; this team developed vBlades, the first Itanium virtual machine monitor. When the Xen open-source virtual machine monitor was announced in 2003, Dan commenced a port of Xen to Itanium (Xen/ia64), utilizing the lessons learned in vBlades and also directly leveraging Linux/ia64 code. Dan is currently the maintainer of Xen/ia64 and is working with a multi-company, worldwide team of Itanium experts to help deliver the first open-source virtual machine monitor for Itanium capable of running multiple SMP guests and supporting migration.

Dan has a BA in Computer Science from the University of California and a MSEE from Stanford University. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE.

Shin-Ming Liu is the Project Manager for High-Level Optimization and GCC of the Itanium C/C++ Compiler Section of the Java, Compiler, and Tools Lab at HP in Cupertino, California. Liu led the development effort for the high-level optimization and code generator project in compiler targeted for the Itanium processor. In this project, he helped redesigned the high-level optimization into a highly-robust, scalable, and efficient component by rearchitecting the infrastructure, from which many new techniques were developed. Many highly-recognized programming analysis methods were adopted as well. Liu led the reinvention of compiler development methodology by focusing on modulization, memory footprint control, canonical internal representation, and automatic error detection. Before joining HP, he worked at MIPS/SGI in the area of compiler front end, middle end, back end, and linker. During that time, he co-authored several technical publications.