Rohit Chandra is currently a Chief Scientist at NARUS, Inc., a provider of internet business infrastructure solutions. He previously was a Principal Engineer in the Compiler Group of Silicon Graphics, where he helped design and implement OpenMP. Ramesh Menon is a Staff Engineer at NARUS, Inc. Prior to NARUS, Ramesh was a Staff Engineer at SGI representing SGI in the OpenMP forum. He was the founding Chairman of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) and supervised the writing of the first OpenMP specifications. Leonardo Dagum currently works for Silicon Graphics in the Linux Server Platform Group where he is responsible for the I/O infrastructure in SGI's scalable Linux server systems. He helped define the OpenMP Fortran API. His research interests include parallel algorithms and performance modeling for parallel systems. Dave Kohr is currently a member of the Technical Staff at NARUS, Inc. He previously was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Compiler Group at Silicon Graphics, where he helped define and implement the OpenMP. Dror Maydan is currently Director of Software at Tensilica, Inc., the provider of application-specific processor technology. He previously was an Engineering Department Manager in the Compiler Group of Silicon Graphics where he helped design and implement OpenMP. Jeffrey McDonald currently owns SolidFX, a private software development company. In the capacity of Engineering Department Manager at Silicon Graphics, he proposed the OpenMP API effort and helped develop it into the industry standard it is today.