About Us

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Laurence Liew, CEO and Founder

Laurence is a veteran of the open source and HPC/Grid/Cloud community and has been promoting the use of Linux/HPC/Grid since 1998. He was involved in building the very first commercial Linux cluster for a local research institute in 1999 and has since implemented and consulted for many organizations in APJ, Europe and US, on HPC, Grid and now Cloud. Prior to starting 1degreenorth, Laurence was the Director for Platform Computing in Singapore holding multiple portfolios, including:

  • R&D Centre Director for Platform's Open Source Grid Development Centre which is responsible for the development and overall product strategy for Platform's HPC management software,
  • Director of Platform's Cloud Innovation Centre helping customers in Singapore and the region to be Cloud enabled, and
  • Platform's HPCCommunity.org Community Manager,  a portal for the global HPC community.

Before joining Platform Computing, Laurence founded Scalable Systems Pte Ltd in 2003 - the first HPC company to offer a highly productive web GUI and commercial support for SDSC’s Rocks cluster toolkit. Scalable Rocks was sold worldwide and via partners such as DELL, SUN and INTEL partners. Scalable Systems co-developed the San Diego's Supercomputer Centre Rocks toolkit from 2002- 2006. Laurence graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with First Class Honours in Engineering, and holds a Masters in Knowledge Engineering from NUS.

 

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Dr Zhao Pei, VP Business Development

Zhao Pei is a veteran in High Performance Computing(HPC) industry. His 15-year career in HPC has included roles with Silicon Graphics Asia Pacifc as Technical Marketing Manager, NEC South Asia as Business Development Director and Quadrics Ltd, as Sales and Operation Manager for Greater China region. He has been involved in various large scale projects from early stage Linux/Cluster, Vector/SMP Systems, to Grid Computing. Zhao Pei graduated from Nanjing University, China with B.Sc. and M.Sc., and obtained his Ph.D. from National University of Singapore.