Jim Lola is a member of the Computing Technologies Group at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, CA. He was formerly a Senior UNIX Systems Consultant and UNIX Ambassador with Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq Computer Corp. He has been designing and implementing UNIX Clustered solutions (from Compaq, Sun/Veritas, and Linux/Beowulf) for 6 years and has been working on different variants of UNIX since 1978.