[Baypiggies] Baypiggies Digest, Vol 23, Issue 15

[jim stockford]

    i fell off the {num,sci}py truck. thanks for the reminder.
based on my previous efforts, don't hold your breath,
but if you know someone who could present or if you
can steer me somehow, i'd be grateful. there seems a
lot of interest.


On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Simeon Franklin wrote:

> +1 to the concurrency talk.  Also there was discussion of having a 
> NumPy/SciPy presenter back in April but difficulty in finding a 
> presenter. Are we still pursuing that? I've got at least one 
> non-programmer friend (physicist @ LLNL) who would come ...
>
> -regards
> Simeon Franklin
>
>> From: "Shannon -jj Behrens" < jjinux at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Baypiggies] concurrency talk
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>> Someone hinted at this idea earlier, but it might be fun to have an
>> overview discussion on a bunch of different concurrency techniques.
>> We could have a bunch of speakers, each speaking for 15 minutes on a
>> specific topic.  For instance:
>>
>> * Processes
>> * Threads (kernel and green)
>> * Parallel programming vs. distributed computing
>> * IO bound vs. CPU bound
>> * Asynchronous
>> * Twisted
>> * Stackless
>> * Actors
>> * Erlang
>>
>> We wouldn't actually try to cover how to use each of these.  Rather,
>> the goal would be to explain what it is and what are its advantages
>> and limitations.  That'd be a fun talk to give assuming we can keep it
>> shallow enough to cover everything but deep enough to make sense.
>>
>> Happy Hacking!
>> -jj
>>
>> --
>>  http://jjinux.blogspot.com/
>>
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