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Andrew Jones, Vice-President HPC Business - NAG Group

As Vice-President High Performance Computing (HPC) Business for the NAG Group, Andrew has responsibility for NAG's HPC consulting business. This includes leading the growth of the HPC business, developing strategic relationships within the HPC community (including users, buyers, service providers, software developers and hardware suppliers), and advising the development of skills and products to reflect the market need.

Andrew is also part of the team providing the HECToR national supercomputing service, and in particular coordinates relationships with other international organisations offering a similar type of service.

Andrew joined NAG in 2008, with over 10 years of experience in High Performance Computing (HPC), mostly applied to scientific research but also some defence applications. Before joining NAG, Andrew was Head of HPC at the University of Manchester, and was involved in both the previous CSAR national supercomputing service and the European PRACE supercomputing initiative. Andrew has been an end-user, service provider, manager and buyer of HPC and is increasingly well known in the international supercomputing community.

Aside from his scientific/user background, Andrew's recent expertise spans development of HPC requirements and strategy; planning and review of HPC services; evaluation and benchmarking of HPC technology; procurement of systems and services (including formal EU/OJEU procurements); service leadership; and project management.