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EigenForge are specialists in providing fully hosted and managed High Performance Computing (HPC) and supercomputing facilities and services to enterprise and research via our EigenForge data centres.

"I am delighted to welcome Matthew and Simon to the team", says EigenForge CEO Dr. Jason Hogan-O'Neill. "In addition to their technical specialism in their own fields, both Simon and Matt bring extensive commercial experience from both the HPC and telco arenas. Such breadth in both commercial and technical aspects will positively advance the EigenForge proposition".

Matthew Reid, 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.

Simon McIntosh-Smith, Head of Applications: Simon is a world-expert in multi- and many-core hardware and software solutions. Currently a senior lecturer in HPC and heading up High Performance Computing research 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.

"Matthew's experience is being applied to providing trans-European and trans-Atlantic connectivity for clients whose activity spans different geographical locations. This goes over and above providing supercomputing capability at physically nearby data centres and provides vastly improved capability", said Jason Hogan-O'Neill. "Simon's efforts are already at work, particularly in the bio-sciences segment where some of the greatest scope for application acceleration on co-processors exists".

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