Francesc Giné received the B.S. in telecommunication engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1993 and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in computer science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Arquitecture at University of Lleida (UdL), Spain. His research interest include cluster, multicluster and peer-to-peer computing and scheduling-mapping for parallel processing.