Bad I/O harms shared storage and limits performance significantly, problems that no amount of extra hardware or cloud spend can fix.

In this 30-minute live webinar, Rosemary Francis, Founder and CEO of Ellexus, explained common I/O problems and best practices to implement easy performance wins. She outlined I/O profiling for improving application performance as well as I/O monitoring for improving HPC system performance through good application deployment. Understanding I/O patterns can give easy wins as often a simple fix can make the biggest difference, but knowing where to look is crucial. Finally, Rosemary demoed I/O profiling tools from Ellexus that provide system telemetry and application performance metrics.

The presentation slides are also available here.

About the Presenter

Rosemary Francis obtained her PhD in Computer Architecture from the Cambridge University Computer Lab after studying computer science at Newnham College, Cambridge. After working in the chip design industry, Rosemary founded Ellexus to help manage the complex tool chains needed for semiconductor design. Since then Ellexus has evolved to become the I/O profiling company, providing unique application and cluster monitoring tools to high performance computing organisations around the world. Rosemary is a mentor at IdeaSpace, and a member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Rosemary is also a frequent speaker at both IEEE and Cambridge University.