Rithin Shetty Network Appliance, Inc., 495 East Java Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94089 (rithin@gmail.com). Mr. Shetty is a member of the technical staff, working with the Enterprise Data Management business unit on disk-based backup and mirroring technologies. He received a B.E. degree in computer science and engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, India, and an M.S. degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

Mazen Kharbutli Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, P.O. Box 7256, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (mazen.kharbutli@gmail.com). Mr. Kharbutli received a B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering at North Carolina State University.

Yan Solihin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, P.O. Box 7256, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 (solihin@ece.ncsu.edu). Dr. Solihin received a B.S. degree in computer science from the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, an M.S. degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University. He has published more than 25 papers in computer architecture and image processing, which cover chip multiprocessor systems, performance modeling, interaction of architecture and systems software, and architecture support for security and software reliability.

Milos Prvulovic College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 (milos@cc.gatech.edu). Dr. Prvulovic is an assistant professor at the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has published numerous papers on computer architecture, primarily in the area of architectural support for thread-level speculation, reliability, and programmability of multiprocessors.