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ISS Technology Update Volume 9, Number 1

Meet the Expert—Siamak Tavallaei
Siamak Tavallaei, a Distinguished Technologist with HP Industry Standard Servers
(ISS) Platform Architecture and Technology, is a leading HP expert on Intel
processors and chipsets, primarily with HP ProLiant 500 series platforms. His
expertise includes processor architecture, cache coherency, memory sub-systems,
legacy components, fabric/IO interfaces to processor and peripheral components,
and storage and network controllers.
That’s not all. Siamak collaborates externally with customers, technology vendors,
suppliers, and industry partners; he also collaborates internally with product
development and marketing organizations to arrive at optimal solutions that satisfy
customer needs.
Handling such a long list of responsibilities requires exceptional skill. Gene
Freeman, his manager, lauds Siamak’s outstanding analytical ability by saying,

“He can take any subject and break it down to fine levels of detail for careful

analysis.” Gene points out that Siamak is very active in HP ISS Technology Tour
Name: Siamak Tavallaei
Title: Distinguished Technologist, HP
events, HP ISS Technology Exchanges, and the HP ISS Technology Advisory
Industry Standard Servers
Council. He also participates with HP Business Critical Systems (BCS) as a solution
Years at HP: 19
architect for mission critical customers, adding his x86 expertise to the Itanium
University: MS and BS Electrical
perspective to help solve customers' difficult problems.
Engineering, Utah State University

Early lessons pay dividends
BS, Applied Mathematics; BS, Electronics
Engineering Technology, Outstanding
Siamak and his wife, Linda, have a daughter (11) and a son (7). Siamak
Mathematics Graduate
volunteers as a den leader with his son’s Cub Scout pack, where he enjoys
Weber State University
teaching lifelong principles to the cub scouts. Early on, Siamak learned the
principal lessons from his parents and teachers to think, experiment, build, and teach. He observed his father’s meticulous
attention to detail and marveled at his creations. Siamak’s middle school mathematics teacher provoked him to think hard until
his brain got hot. He was fortunate to have science teachers who let him experiment in the physics and chemistry labs; and his
mother encouraged him to share his learning with others.
On the forefront of InfiniBand
Siamak has developed useful innovations into a number of multi-processor ProLiant servers that has led to their successful
production. But one of his career highlights with HP occurred during two years of intense competitive collaboration with industry
leaders to develop the specification for InfiniBand. It required tremendous finesse in balancing technical prowess, company
business needs, social interactions, and leadership within a group of expert volunteers from competing companies.
Solutions driven by customer input
When asked about the role that customer input plays in product development, Siamak said, “Our solutions are mostly driven by
customers’ stated desires, but it is their unstated needs that provide a richer opportunity for innovation. To profitably meet such
requirements, I constantly look for opportunities to adapt existing technologies, to develop new ones, or to invent useful
solutions.”
Collaboration with industry partners
Siamak believes that the strength of HP comes not only from the expertise of its engineers, but also from their interaction with
industry partners. For example, HP participates internationally in over 200 standards organizations through more than 500
technical committees. HP engineers help develop specifications for memory, wired and wireless telecommunications, storage,
management software, information technology and security, ANSI, IEEE, ISO/IEC, and so forth. HP also works closely with
industry partners that develop processors, memory, storage, and networking components.
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