Since 2006 Simon has worked at Silicon Graphics International (SGI) predominantly in support of the largest life science organisations in Northern Europe, mapping both applications and workflow involving high throughput sequencing and imaging technologies, with leading edge super-computing and storage architectures. Before then, Simon worked at numerous global scientific publishing, data mining software and drug discovery solution companies to address both technical and business challenges.

As part of Simons role at SGI, he has overseen numerous supercomputing installations for the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC, Dublin) with some of the Global Top500s most energy-efficient, highly differentiated MPP and SMP platforms.

Simon Appleby
Life & Earth Sciences Manger, EMEA
SGI

sappleby@sgi.com
+44 (7841) 157 223