Claude Timsit is professor emeritus and member of the PRiSM Laboratory at the University of Versailles, France. He bas been teaching Computer Architecture, Computer Science and Operating systems for more than 25 years. He conceived several high performance computers for scientific computing, image and signal processing. Soraya Zertal is associate professor in the Architecture and Parallelism research group in the PRiSM Laboratory at the University of Versailles, France.
Her research interests include parallel architecture, storage systems and performance evoluation techniques. She bas been teaching computer architecture and operating systems for 15 years.