Daniel Kidger Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Winnersh, England, United Kingdom (home based)

I am a specialist in the design and delivery of storage systems for High Performance Computing, focussing mostly on PFSS which is HPE's imlimentation of Spectrum Scale (GPFS) from IBM. I cover the full suite of HPE's high performance storage products include ClusterStor (Lustre) and the two tiering products: CDS and DMF.

My first six months in HPE was a welcome return to a fully hands-on role in the HPC Storage group at HPE. I helped deploy DMF at several customers in the UK and the rest of Europe. I also deployed Cluster Data Services at a high profile UK customer. The biggest project was the first major "HPC in Private Cloud" deployment for a large customer in Germany..

UK

I joined IBM in July 2014 to strength the team following IBM's acquisition of Platform Computing the year before. My core role was in the area of Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS), providing technical presales, Partner enablement and training.My secondary role was in HPC cluster job management with Spectrum LSF and Spectrum Conductor.I covered the.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I provided technical support to Pre-sales and also some customer support, particularly for customers in defence and secure government sites.I helped configured and design HPC clusters, including all networking, CPUs and co-processors together with the environmental aspects of power and cooling.The largest system being 'Blackthorn' at AWE which has over.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I returned back to Quadrics in April 2008 to continue as an expert in parallel applications, interconnects and cluster management.I designed and installed Quadrics' last customer installation at BAe Systems, Warton. The installation went very smoothly, only taking 2 days at the customer's site until the first customer production jobs were able to be.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Customer facing Engineering role.Worked on porting codes to ClearSpeed's SIMD coprocessor, including Molpro and AMBER, all the way down from Fortran/C down to on-chip microcode. Designed and implimented an API for interfacing co-processors with high-level applications.Supported partners at AWE, B.Ae. and a long list of universities.Help run numerous trade.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Presales consulting and technical support of our customers. Developed at ran the technical side of the shows including SC and ISC.During this time I was seconded to provide onsite support at a major UK government site for 3 mission critical systems. This covered all software issues and escalation of hardware issues. I provided monthly and quarterly.

A great 3 years at the time Manchester hosted the UK's fastest computer - a 768-cpu Cray T3E.I provided technical support to users, particuarly in CFD, meterology and oceanography. I produced and delivered many training courses covering topics from "Vector processing on the Fujitsu VPP" to "Java for HPC"I ran the weekly MRCSS seminar series which brought.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Fresh out of my Ph.D I was a PostDoc with some lecturing duties then a full time member of the academic staff.I taught courses in Computing, Numerical Methods, Finite Element Analysis and Design as well as pursuing my research career in large non-linear 3D finite element code development using at the time state of the art supercomputers.

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