Gregg McKnight is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the technical lead for the xSeries Server Development and Performance organization in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. He is an Electrical Engineer and has 20 years of experience in performance-related activities on IBM Servers. The Server Development and Performance organization is responsible for server simulation, design and performance optimization, as well as developing key industry benchmarks such as TPC-C, TPC-H, TCP-W, SAP, Notesbench, SPECWeb, NetBench, ServerBench, and WebBench benchmarks. Gregg created the algorithms for rules-based performance analysis that are used in the Capacity Manager extension of IBM Director and is the author of the IBM white paper Fundamentals of Server Performance.
