BEAR Cloud Speaker

Simon Thompson
Research Computing Infrastructure Architect at the University of Birmingham

 

Simon is the Research Computing Infrastructure Architect at the University of Birmingham. He is working, designing, and building research data and computation systems. Recently, much of Simon’s time has been taken up designing and building OpenStack based private cloud systems including the pilot for the CLIMB project. CLIMB is an ambitious multi-university, multi-site deployment aimed at supporting microbial bioinformaticians. It was built with Tom Connor (Cardiff University) and Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) and is supported by the Medical Research Council. Simon enjoys challenging projects, and challenging the traditional approaches used. This has led to the development of a private research cloud being deployed at University of Birmingham, which includes being the first UK site to deploy Lenovo warm water cooling technology and even getting parts created to support the systems. He is also chair of the independent Spectrum Scale user group.

Click here to view the slideshow from Simon Thompson's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.
Click here to view a video of Simon Thompson's presentation at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.
Click here to view a video of the panel session at the 2016 BEAR Cloud Launch.

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