[pypy-dev] Talk in the Supercomputing Day, Madrid

[holger krekel]

Hi Guillemi!

thanks for mailing - this definitely sounds interesting to me.  
I discussed earlier today with Maciej Fijalkowski who is also
interested to come.  So let's stay in contact and discuss details. 

cheers,
holger


On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:54 +0100, Guillem Borrell i Nogueras wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> My name is Guillem Borrell and I am a researcher in the Computational Fluid 
> Dynamics Laboratory in the School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica de 
> Madrid.
> 
> This year I'm in charge of organising the Supercomputing Day. Its aim is to 
> present in form of talks the recent and future developments in high performance 
> computing in science and engineering. It holds five talks, open to anyone, on 
> one day and we expect that it will take place on Agust the 1st of 2009.
> 
> Most of supercomputing software use static languages such as Fortran or C but 
> postprocessing is usually done in dynamic  languages, mostly matlab. While it 
> uses dynamic languages on a daily basis the scientific community has almost 
> never taken a look at what the virtual machines can offer in terms of 
> versatility, ease of use and performance. 
> 
> Pypy is now at the bleeding edge of dynamic language implementation and I think 
> that some of you can give some insight on what dynamic languages (and pypy, of 
> course) can offer in the field of supercomputing.  I know that pypy is not only 
> focused in performance but our intention is to get an overview, not only to talk 
> about a single project.
> 
> My question is ¿Is some of the pypy developers interested in give such a talk? 
> If the answer is yes  ther's still plenty of time to think about the details.
> 
> I personall think that pypy is the most mind challenging software project and 
> this can be a little effort to present some of its achievements to a broader 
> audience.
> 
> We have two confirmed talks at the moment.  The first one will be on future 
> microprocessor architecture development and the Cell architecture in particular 
> and the second one will be about distributed file systems and Lustre.
> 
> Sincerely yours.
> -- 
> guillem
> 
> Guillem Borrell i Nogueras
> Laboratorio de Mecánica de Fluidos Computacional
> Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronáuticos
> guillem at torroja.dmt.upm.es
> Web: http://torroja.dmt.upm.es/guillem/blog
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