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 [email protected] Web: http://torroja.dmt.upm.es/guillem/blog _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
