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Peter Dzwig

Peter Dzwig

Practice Leader
Geographic Location: United Kingdom
Focus Area: HPC and HFC

Peter Dzwig has over 35 years experience in the IT industry including hardware and software design, sales and marketing and board-level management. Initially a physicist working on high-end computing, principally in solid-state physics, he left academia to act as consultant to various companies including BP, British Aerospace, DEC and Thorn EMI. Peter now heads up Bloor’s HPC and HFC practice.

High Performance Computing and High Functionality Computing (HPC and HFC) refer to technologies which are tailored to the highest throughput and scale, and nowadays cover a wide range of applications. HPC and HFC are playing an ever-wider role in mainstream computing, driven by rapid deployment of multi-core processors (MCPs) from Intel, AMD, IBM and many others in both embedded and non-embedded spaces. MCP technology has thus become both unavoidable and disruptive, reaching all areas of computing from cars, mobile phones and PCs to high end servers and beyond; they are driving substantial change in applications design, build and implementation. Peter’s practice monitors embedded and non-embedded computing, related software and tools, applications, porting, hardware developments and strategies as they affect enterprises, smaller companies and even individuals.

In 1991 Peter became Director of The London Parallel Applications Centre (LPAC), a six-year multi-million pound technology transfer centre in HPC funded by the UK DTI. LPAC involved a consortium of London University colleges, and was associated with a variety of City-oriented companies. At LPAC he worked extensively with UK government and the European Commission at technical and strategic levels, was leader of the Applications Working Group of The European Industrial Information Technology Initiative (Ei3) Consortium and was principal editor of its report on the future strategic direction of HPC in Europe.

In 1997 he co-founded OneEighty Software of which he was CEO for a number of years. He has since been a board member of a variety of companies in areas ranging from mobile telephony to medical informatics.

Peter Dzwig has a BSc in Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. He is a Fellow of The British Computer Society and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a Member of the Institute of Physics. He holds chartered status from all three institutions. Previously he was Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London and Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Kings College, London.

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