Michele de Rosa works for T.R.S. S.p.A. as Project Manager/Team Leader/Analyst Programmer on Air Traffic Control and Defense Systems since 2002. He earned a degree in Computer Science in 2001 and a PhD in Environmental Monitoring in 2011 with a thesis on nowcasting of extreme meteorological events using satellite data. Currently he is working on the development of a framework for the distribution and visualization of georeferenced data using OSGi and on the improvement of the nowcasting algorithms.

Jay Alameda is the lead for Advanced Application Support at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. In this role, he works with the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) which is a collaboration of NSF-funded high performance computing (HPC) resource providers, working to provide a common set of services, including the provisioning of advanced user support, to the science and engineering community. Jay also works with the NSF-funded Track 1 project, Blue Waters, and in this role, has worked withadvanced development tools (such as the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform) to support development and optimization of HPC applications on the Blue Waters resource. He is also leading the NSF funded SI2 project, “A Productive and Accessible Development Workbench for HPC Applications Using the Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform”, which is working on a user- and application-centric plan to improve Eclipse PTP as a platform for development of HPC applications, with a particular focus on broadening support of a diverse range of HPC resources (especially across XSEDE) as well as undertaking a broad education, outreach and training agenda to increase the size of the community benefiting from the capabilities of Eclipse PTP.

After earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany) in 2005, Markus Geimer joined the Jülich Supercomputing Centre as a research scientist beginning of 2006. Since then he is working on the Scalasca performance analysis toolset as the lead developer of its parallel trace analysis component. Furthermore, he is also heavily involved in training activities related to Scalasca as well as Score-P, and has published many refereed articles in journals and conference or workshop proceedings.

Andreas Knüpfer has a MD in Maths and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He currently is senior scientist at the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at TU Dresden (Germany). Research interests: parallel programming paradigms and parallel performance analysis

Thomas William received his Dipl.-Inf. degree in computer science from the TU-Dresden in 2007 for developing an I/O-tracing library for the D-Grid job-monitoring framework. He has over 7 years of experience in the benchmarking area and is especially interested in parallel I/O benchmarks. His actual research position at the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) involves the integration of parallel analysis and visualization tools.