Rosemary Francis... Best practices when accessing Big Data or any other data!

In this talk I will explore best practices when accessing data on local or shared file systems. I will use examples of what can go wrong taken from real customer problems to back up how simple guidelines and good use of available tools can make a massive difference to the performance, reliability, scalability and portability of your code. There are free and commercial tools that can help, but they need to be combined with good coding and good working practices.

Data doesn't have to be big to cause a problem, but as data sets grow, the way we access data has never been a more important consideration. Our customers work in scientific and high-performance computing with different trade-offs to make between time-to-market, reliability and performance, but what they all have in common is that they have to care about I/O.

• About Dr Rosemary Francis

Dr Rosemary Francis is an expert in I/O profiling and high-performance computing with a PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She is a regular speaker at conferences including IEEE and Linux foundation events and sits on the advisory board for the Ideaspace startup accelerator and the Raspberry Pi foundation. Rosemary founded Ellexus, the I/O profiling company, after working in the semiconductor industry. Today Ellexus provides unique application and cluster monitoring tools to commercial and research organisations around the world, helping them to optimise their applications and manage their IT infrastructure.

• Schedule:

7pm: Arrive for chat and networking. Pizza & drinks available courtesey of DisplayLink.
7.30pm: Dr Rosemary Francis presents her talk.
8.30pm: Q&A
9pm: Open invite to anyone who wants to move the conversation to the pub