Xinghong He is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist at IBM WW HPC Benchmark Center. He has over 15 years of experience in parallel and high-performance computing. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical and computational physics from Queens University of Belfast. His areas of expertise include applications porting and performance tuning for System p, System x, and Bluegene.
Anthony Ercole is a Systems Management Specialist at the STG WW Power Systems (p) Benchmark Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. His areas of expertise include System p, System x, AIX, Windows, Linux, and Provisioning.