Data-intensive Computing and Parallel I/O
Presenter: Ritu Arora
Texas Advanced Computing Center
rauta@tacc.utexas.edu
An introduction to conquering big data using high performance computing will be presented in this talk. The talk will also cover some of the best practices and strategies for the efficient utilization of parallel file systems. Content on parallel I/O for improving application performance without overloading the parallel file system will also be included in the talk.
Ritu Arora is an HPC researcher and consultant at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). She also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. Ritu provides HPC and Big Data consultancy to the users of the national supercomputing resources through her role in XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment). The key areas of her interest and expertise are HPC, fault-tolerance, domain-specific languages, generative programming techniques, workflow automation, and Big Data management. She received her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010.