Jason Hogan-O'Neill MPhys (Hons), PhD.    Founder

Jason has extensive experience in high performance computing. He has a unique background combining technical, commercial, and managerial experience as;

• A user of high end system
• Facilities manager
• Technical solutions architect into some of the largest high end systems in the UK and Europe

His Curriculum Vitae includes managing large facilities and designing large supercomputing systems, including those for Formula-1 teams, finance, and low-latency high-transactions environments. At Silicon Graphics (SGI) he was an x86sinder and a member of the Intel Low Latency Laboratory team. He has also responded to some of the largest tenders and RFIs within the UK and EMEA on high performance systems.

He is a champion of client expectations and is committed to excellence in capturing client requirement coupled with timely and costly delivery while maintaining an emphasis on clear communication.

Jason has a PhD in condensed matter theoretical physics and has been using high performance computing and designing websites since the mid 90's.

Matthew Reid, BSc. (Hons.) MSc    Commercial Manager

Matt has an impressive track record built over 14 years, working with a mixture of SME's and Bluechips across a wide range of business verticals. He has delivered software and hardware solutions in industries as diverse as computer based training, commodity trading systems, payroll software, unified communications, business change management and finance. Working with high profile business leaders and venture capitalists, his key specialism is in concept realization and the development of innovative IP.

During his tenure at Adeptra his wireless product developments helped secure second round funding in excess of $30M and afterward he started his own consultancy specialising in contact centre solutions. After developing Adeptra's initial wireless product line in early 2000, he later went on to develop and deploy the first iterations of the companies communications infrastructure in co-lo's across Europe and the US.

More recently he was acting CTO at Ergo Ltd, where he led the development of the technical infrastructure for a new business change management platform at the Prudential Plc.

 
   Simon McIntosh-Smith
   Head of Applications and Acceleration

Simon is a world-expert in multi- and many-core hardware and software solutions. Currently a senior lecturer in HPC and leading the academic High Performance Computing initiative at Bristol University, Simon has fifteen years of industry experience in VP and Director-level roles in processor architecture and software applications at ClearSpeed, PixelFusion, STMicroelectronics and Inmos. He holds eight patents in parallel hardware and software.

As a founder member of ClearSpeed Simon led the architectural development of the only many-core processors designed specifically for HPC, culminating with the 192-core CSX700 processor in 2008, at the time the fastest and most power efficient double precision processor in the world. Simon also led the development of the world's first accelerated and heterogeneous math library for BLAS and LAPACK, resulting in the first accelerated supercomputer entry in the Top500, the original incarnation of TSUBAME at Tokyo Tech.

Simon has extensive experience accelerating many different codes on HPC systems and accelerators, including molecular mechanics N-body codes such as GROMACS and Amber, drug docking, density functional theory applications from quantum chemistry, seismic processing, genomics and financial trading. Simon's extensive experience in the accelerator space has enabled him to offer a unique level of insight into the best accelerator for any given application or proprietary code, from graphics processors (GPUs) to FPGAs to multi-core mainstream processors.