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Andrew Jones - 'hpcnotes' - Who am I?
I have been called the trusted, experienced, impartial voice on the technology and business of Supercomputing, High Performance Computing, and AI Infrastructure.
My career has been built on an aptitude for building bridges across the technology, people, and business sides of supercomputing, HPC, and AI infrastructure; equally comfortable in the depths of technology, or mission-scale strategy, or commercial vision.
Researching, Planning, Delivering Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure
I am currently an engineering leader at Microsoft working on future capabilities for supercomputing, AI infrastructure, and HPC. I try to understand the trends and possibilities for future technology, anticipate market needs, explore potential for disruptions, advances, risks, etc. I also directly help research and plan some of the largest supercomputing infrastructures in the world such as Microsoft's Fairwater AI Infrastructure, or steer capabilities to support future internal and external users of supercomputing.
I have spent 25+ years using supercomputers/HPC for research, including developing software; researching into supercomputing/HPC itself - e.g. performance research, benchmarking, the science (or art?) of technology evaluation, and HPC strategy; buying supercomputers; architecting and leading supercomputing services, including national-scale HPC services; plus consulting and talking about supercomputing/HPC. My career across government, academia, industry, consulting, and now a hyperscaler, has given me a rare breadth of exposure to state-of-practice in wide range of AI/HPC services/facilities across around the world.
Sharing Experience of Supercomputing Business and Technology
I have developed a series of tutorials or classes on HPC, supercomputing and AI infrastructure, in particular focusing on HPC/AI Leadership Training for the business aspects of HPC/AI, covering everything from strategy & investment cases, metrics, delivery models, cost/value/risk models, technology evaluation, procurement, to planning and running HPC/AI services. These well-regarded classes have been delivered in various formats since 2013. Find out more about the HPC/AI Leadership Classes and other tutorials here.
Talking about HPC, AI, Supercomputing, and more
I have also tried to build a catalogue [work in progress] of all the interviews with me or articles about me, articles I have published, presentations/talks I have given, and my other writing such as LinkedIn posts or blogs.
This site also has sections on resources for HPC/AI - lists of HPC/AI events; suggested media, news, podcasts and similar that cover HPC and AI Infra; and who to follow for HPC/AI on social media.
Follow hpcnotes, Find me at Events, or Contact me
I post about supercomputing, supercomputers, HPC, AI, cloud, technology, F1, LFC, aviation, travel … and more at these social media locations:
LinkedIn: Andrew Jones [Best for DMs] - Please feel free to send me a connection request if we know each other or if we have met recently and had a conversation - if not, then please do send a reason with your connection request as I get too many requests to guess!
BlueSky: @hpcnotes.bsky.social [No DMs]
X/Twitter: @hpcnotes [No DMs]
Mastodon: @hpcnotes@mast.hpc.social
My YouTube channel: hpcnotes (restarting content soon)
Slack: hpcnotes on hpc.social (see https://hpc.social/projects/chat/ for details) [Also good for DMs]
Find out more on my about me page. You can also find me at many HPC/AI conferences around the world.
This is a personal site. All posts are my own opinions and may not reflect the views of my current, past, or future employers.
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