London Systems Club

London Systems Club is a meetup for engineers interested in systems, hardware, and performance. We cover topics like operating systems, compilers, storage, networking, GPUs, runtimes, AI infrastructure, and distributed systems through technical talks and discussion. Schedule 6:00 – 6:30 PM Arrival & Networking 6:45 – 7:15 PM Ismaeel Bashir, CEO @ Expanse How we predict a job's runtime and memory before it runs, after measuring 538,000 production jobs on a national supercomputer that reserved two to three times what they used. 7:15 – 7:45 PM Kaloyan Aleksiev, CTO @ Inherent What does it take to build long-horizon RL systems for science?Lessons from Faraday: the infrastructure we built to train scientific intuition on top of coding agents and outperform leading models at research paper replication 8:00 – 9:00 PM Discussion & networking