Hans Wemer Meuer is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Erich Strohmaier is a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California. Jack Dongarra is a Professor at the Innovative Computing Laboratory of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Horst D. Simon is the Associate Laboratory Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.