Pratap Pattnaik is an IBM Fellow, and is currently the Senior Manager of the Scalable Systems group in the IBM Research Division. Over the past fifteen years, he and his team have developed a number of key technologies for IBM's high end Servers.His current research work includes the development and design of computer systems, including system and processor hardware, operating systems and autonomic components for IBM’s UNIX and mainframe Servers. In the past he has worked in the field of parallel algorithms for Molecular Dynamics, solutions of linear systems, Quantum Monte Carlo and theory of High Temperature Superconductivity, communication subsystems, fault management subsystems, etc. He also has over ten years of research experience in various aspects of integrated circuit design and fabrication, silicon processing, and condensed matter theory.