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Title: Massively Parallel Systems: Headache or Sliced Bread? Manish Gupta is a Research Staff Member and Senior Manager of the Emerging System Software department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He leads research on system software for massively parallel machines and on high performance compilers and runtimes for high end servers. His team's recent activities include developing system software for the Blue Gene supercomputer, compilers and runtimes for the PERCS system, and end-to-end performance optimizations for commercial workloads on the IBM POWER5 based systems. Manish received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992, and has worked with IBM since then. He has co-authored over 50 papers in refereed conferences and journals in the area of high performance compilers, parallel computing, Java Virtual Machine optimizations, and optimizing commercial middleware. He has served as a co-chair of the International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), workshops on Java for High Performance Computing, and has served on the program committee for several conferences. He has received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and several Invention Achievement Plateau awards.