Christos Louras is a research associate of the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) at the Athena Research Center (ATHENA RC), where he is involved in the support and development of the software infrastructure and in the development and adaption of applications on modern computer systems. He is a graduate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. His main research interests are High Performance Computing (HPC) and resource management in distributed systems.