Presenter

James Coomer is Technical Director at DDN and manages the technical team for Europe. James’ career in HPC started with a PhD in Theoretical Physics at Exeter University (UK), modeling material structures using HPC techniques. James then spent over 10 years at Sun Microsystems and Dell over 3 years at a small UK HPC specialist in a wide range of roles from L3 support through consultancy, training, installation, and pre-sales. James has specialized in the past in HPC schedulers, parallel programming, and high-performance interconnects and filesystems before turning to focus on IO and storage in a move to DDN in 2011.