Simon See

Supercomputing is just round the corner. This time is going to be held in Reno. Not sure if there is a correlation between gambling and high performance computing. Anyway, it remind me of my first supercomputing conference when I got out of the university. At that time working as a research scientist in a national lab in Singapore. Being trained as a numerical analyst, I was assigned to develop simulation programs for all sort of systems. Since than I've moved from ISIM (a simulation consulting company) to SGI and then to Sun. I remember it was March of 2001. I was a devoted member of the SGI then and with much persuasion, Marc Hamilton (currently VP for Solaris Marketing) recruited me into Sun. I was asked to build HPC for Sun in Asia Pacific. It was then we build Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center (http://apstc.sun.com.sg). Deepak, Melvin and a whole lots of young engineers helped to get it started. Over the period of 5 years, APSTC has done some interesting projects, published 50+ papers and have lots of collaboration with varies universities. It is a challenge but a interesting journey. Recently Sun has make tremendous in road into the HPC segment. With the new X64 (AMD and Intel) based systems, Sun has put herself back on the HPC map. I'm fortunate to be asked to run the Global HPC Solution team. This is part of the growth target and I'm very excited about work we are entrusted with. I also hold position in both universities (National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological Univ) as associate research professors. This is a very combination as it allow me to funnel some of the industry research work to my students which Sun does not have time or the resources to do. It is fun and I'm looking forward to have many good fun years in Sun.