John Manley
From IRF 2007
Dr John Manley is the Director of Utility Computing at HP Labs, Bristol.
This programme is a principal component of HP's Adaptive Infrastructure
strategy and addresses how to intertwine Business Process Design with
Application Design with Infrastructure Design, and how to adapt
(automatically) to any class of change in the Business Process, the
Application or the Infrastructure. A particular focus is the Service
Provider model of service delivery, whether internal, external or
public.
John joined HP Labs in 1985 and has led programmes in large-scale systems initially in the area of Large Knowledge Base Management Systems and the integration of heterogeneous information sources. Since 1992 his group has focussed on the different classes of Service Provider computing and their enabling large-scale infrastructures. This has ranged from Telecommunications Management Network systems, through converged telecommunications and internet domains such as VoIP and Web-Intelligent-Network integration to Utility Computing.
A number of Service Providers have been built using the underlying Utility Computing technologies. The first of these enabled a utility CGI-rendering service for animators that led to HP's relationship with Dreamworks and HP supplying over 100 CPU years of rendering for Shrek2 - this was followed by Madagascar and Over the Hedge. A Computational Fluid Dynamics Service Provider enabled whole-car aerodynamics for a Formula 1 team's cars for a whole season.
For the last two years Dr Manley has also led HP Labs's strategic collaboration with SAP Research on Adaptive SAP. This major programme is coupling SAP's Business Process Platform systems with HP's Adaptive Infrastructure to enable rapid and flexible definition of Business Processes and the automatic design of the appropriate infrastructure, deployment and lifecycle management of those Business Processes as a service. These services will run in enterprise data centres or on distributed, federated, shared Service Provider environments.
Dr Manley holds a PhD in Molecular Quantum Mechanics from the University of Bristol, and has worked at the Universities of Milan, Toronto and Sussex. He has served on the advisory boards of a number of UK Grid and Large-scale Complex Systems initiatives, as well as the CERN Grid OpenLab.
