He has built up and led performance teams for IBM BladeCenter systems, IBM Information Management Software products and Cloud management software. His interests include performance analysis using discrete-event simulations and queuing modeling. Peter Altevogt holds degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Heidelberg and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the University of Karlsruhe. He joined the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg in 1991 to work on various High-Performance Computing projects before moving to the IBM Germany Research & Development GmbH in 1998. In 2009, he spent several months at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory working on processor performance modeling. Currently, he is working on processor performance verification and modeling.