Steven R. Shave Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR (s.r.shavesms.ed.ac.uk). After receiving an M.Sc. degree in high-performance computing from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh (2005), Mr. Shave has continued his work on the parallelization and expansion of LIDAEUS and his current pursuit of a Ph.D. degree with the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology. His interests include massively parallel systems and the interdisciplinary crossover between computing and biology, which have been traditionally considered two distinct fields.

Paul Taylor Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR (p.taylored.ac.uk). Dr. Taylor received B.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1987) degrees in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, and after 1 year of postdoctoral research using x-ray crystallography to study amino-acid/alkaloid interactions, he became the computing officer at the Department of Biochemistry at Edinburgh University, where he supported the Protein Crystallography Research Group. He subsequently became an Infomatiker with the drug design group at Sandoz Pharma A.G. in Basle, Switzerland, working on many aspects of protein structure and its interaction with small molecules, before returning to Edinburgh as a research fellow in the newly formed Structural Biochemistry Group at Edinburgh. He is currently interested in using x-ray crystallography to study interactions between proteins and small molecules and in design of software and database systems that perform in silico screening of large libraries of potential ligands against protein targets.

Malcolm Walkinshaw Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR (m.walkinshawed.ac.uk). Professor Walkinshaw obtained B.Sc. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) degrees from the Chemistry Department at the University of Edinburgh. After leading a structure-based drug design group in Sandoz in Switzerland for 10 years, he became the Chair of Structural Biochemistry in 1995 at the University of Edinburgh. He has published more than 200 papers on molecular recognition, protein structure, and drug discovery. His lab currently consists of 20 research fellows, Ph.D. students, and support staff who use crystallographic, biophysical, and computational approaches to study protein–ligand interactions.

Lorna Smith Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ (l.smithed.ac.uk). Dr. Smith graduated from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, with B.Sc. Hons. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in pure chemistry. Her Ph.D. focused on predicting the morphology of detergent crystals and was sponsored by Unilever Research, Port Sunlight, Liverpool. She has been at EPCC since 1997 where she has been involved in research, training, and user support. Her research interests are mainly focused on investigating new languages and models for high-performance computing (HPC) and on scaling of computer applications. Dr. Smith is the HPC Research Manager at EPCC and is responsible for a wide range of projects in the HPC and computational grid area. She manages a team of scientists who are responsible for terascaling user applications on the Blue Gene/L system at EPCC and on the U.K. National HPC System, HPCx.

Judy Hardy Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ (j.hardyed.ac.uk). Dr. Hardy has a B.Sc. degree in chemical physics and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Bristol and an M.Sc. degree in software technology from Napier University in Edinburgh. Her Ph.D. research concerned microwave spectroscopy of molecules having asymmetric internal rotors. After completing her Ph.D., she worked for 10 years at Raychem Ltd., an international materials science company, in a variety of research and development roles. Dr. Hardy has worked at EPCC since 2001. She is Project Manager for a number of educational and e-learning projects and is actively involved in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the School of Physics.

Arthur Trew Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ (a.trewed.ac.uk). Prior to becoming a founder member of EPCC in 1990, Professor Trew was a Research Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, working on computational simulations of many-body problems. He became Director of EPCC in 1997, Deputy Director of the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) in 2001, and Professor of Computational Science in 2006. He is also a Director of UOE HPCx Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh, which was formed to manage the £54M and £113M HPCx and HECToR projects delivering HPC services to the U.K. academic community.