Enterprise Grid Computing Symposium

Jason Tan
Program Director
Hewlett-Packard, Singapore

Topic

Technology & Market Forces Leading To and Challenging Grid

Abstract

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been pioneering the adoption of Grid technology and open standards for several years. The talk first provides HP's view of grid technology for enterprise customers and the challenges for commercial adoption of grid technologies. Then, market trend and data will be outlined to support the call for moving grid from the traditional high performance computing environment into the enterprise space.

Biodata

Jason Tan is the Program Director for HP Singapore, driving strategic program and research collaboration in Singapore. In his previous function, he led the High Performance Computing team for South East Asia, developing several key grid initiatives in the region, including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand grid.

Jason has extensive industry and technical experience in several key initiatives for Singapore, such as High Performance Computing, Life Sciences and Grid Computing. He was instrumental in the setup for the joint R&D lab in Singapore, between HP Lab and A*STAR.

Jason holds bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.