About Me

Established Leader in Supercomputing, AI Infrastructure, High Performance Computing (HPC)

Nearly 25 years of technical computing experience, including as a researcher/end-user, software developer, performance researcher, service provider/manager, supercomputing service architect, procurement, strategy, consulting, including rare exposure to state-of-practice in wide range of AI/HPC services/facilities across industry, government and academia around the world.

Currently an engineering leader working on future HPC & AI capabilities at Microsoft Azure.

Previously built and led an international HPC consulting & services business, providing impartial experience-based technology and strategy advice to buyers, users and managers of HPC, plus HPC software engineering services. Before that, had leading roles in national HPC services, university HPC services, the European PRACE supercomputing initiative, etc.

Skills & Competencies include:

- Aptitude for finding right questions to draw out the critical aspects of a business or technical situation

- Solid grasp of the business value of supercomputing/HPC and the relationship to technical capabilities

- Proven insight into risk and strategic decisions HPC/AI infra service delivery

- Evaluation of HPC/AI technologies, architectures and roadmaps, including performance benchmarking

- Stakeholder engagement for AI/HPC services, successes and challenges

- Track record of building rapport & trust at all levels – technical, business, CxO, users, etc.

- HPC funding and cost recovery models

- HPC Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

- HPC procurement

- Strategic HPC planning

- HPC/AI service delivery review/benchmarking

- Experience from world’s largest AI supercomputers down to $100k HPC systems

Experience. Trusted. Proven.

High profile in the supercomputing community, impartial as much as is possible, including regular invited contributor to various HPC publications, conference talks and training/tutorials, plus active on X/Bluesky/Mastodon as @hpcnotes.

Also fan of #F1, mild #avgeek, travel, natural world photos, and chief advocate for mango in the HPC world.

Speaking

I am a regular speaker at HPC/AI conferences and other events around the world, including internal workshops and seminars. Please get in touch if you would like me to speak at your event.

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

Mastodon: @hpcnotes@mast.hpc.social

Slack: hpcnotes on hpc.social (see https://hpc.social/projects/chat/ for info) [Also good for DMs]