Jose E. Moreira received his B.S. degrees in physics and electrical engineering in 1987 and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1990, all from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He received my Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. Since joining IBM in 1995, he has been involved in several high-performance computing projects, including the Teraflop-scale ASCI Blue-Pacific, ASCI White, and Blue Gene/L. He was the System Software Architect for Blue Gene/L, a project in which he worked from 2000 to 2005. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Chief Architect of the Commercial Scale Out initiative at IBM Research. Since 2008, he have been working on the research and development of future POWER System servers. He was responsible for various innovations in the newly announced IBM Power8 processor.