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 > [email protected] > Web: http://torroja.dmt.upm.es/guillem/blog > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > -- collaborative expert contracting: http://merlinux.eu PyPy Python/Compiler tool chain: http://codespeak.net/pypy pylib py.test/greenlets/svn APIs: http://pylib.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
