François Gygi University of California at Davis, Department of Applied Science, 3013 Engineering III, Davis, California 95616 (fgygiucdavis.edu). Dr. Gygi is Professor of Applied Science at the University of California, Davis and is the architect of the Qbox code. He holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland, and he pursued his research career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Gygi is the recipient of the 2006 ACM/IEEE Gordon Bell Prize for Peak Performance for Qbox simulations on the Blue Gene/L computer.