RAJKUMAR BUYYA is a researcher at the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was Guest Editor for the Special Issue on High Performance Computing on Clusters, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices Journal, and co-author of Mastering C++ and Microprocessor x86 Programming. He is a speaker in the IEEE Computer Society Chapter Tutorials Program and Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing.