CBC Seminar on advanced use of Python programming language - August 26, 2010

This half-day seminar focus on exchanging experience with Python programming and computing. The researchers at CBC are joined with biologists from the Radium hospital, as well as statisticians and computer scientists from UiO. The main focus of this seminar is on how to facilitate large-scale data mining and computing through advanced use of the Python programming language.

Total number of participants: 11 
Total number of guests outside of CBC: 6 
Number of different nationalities represented:  2 
Total number of speakers: 4 
Total number of talks: 2 

Schedule:

13-14: Computational speed-up by mixed programming

Øyvind Øvergaard: Why/how we have (so far) done without mixed programming
Ola Skavhaug: Using Python for scientific computing (tentative title)
Discussion on mixed programming

14-15: Parallel programming and computation

Jonathan Lillesæter: Aiming for web-user initiated parallel execution on TITAN with GPFS
Xing Cai, Parallel programming using Python
Discussion on parallel programming

15-16: General discussion

Possible topics: run time prediction, low-effort web tools, and use of cached objects to represent computations, and possibilities for collaboration

What
  • Seminar
When Aug 26, 2010
from 01:00 PM to 04:00 PM
Where Bakrommet @ Simula
Contact Name Xing Cai
Attendees Eirik Mistereggen
Geir Kjetil Sandve
Hans Petter Langtangen
Jonathan Lillesæter
Lyudmilla Vynntska
Morten
Ola Skavhaug
Ralph Lorentz
Sveinung Gundersen
Xing Cai
Øyvind Øvergaard
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