Wolfgang E. Nagel holds the chair for computer architecture at TU Dresden and is director of the Center for Information Services and HPC (ZIH). His research covers programming concepts and software tools to support the development of scalable and data intensive applications, analysis of computer architectures, and development of efficient parallel algorithms and methods. Prof. Nagel is chairman of the Gauß-Allianz e.V. and member of the international Big Data and Extreme-scale Computing (BDEC) project. He is leading the Big Data competence center “ScaDS – Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions Dresden/Leipzig”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.