Reminder! The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) meets TONIGHT at Explorit Nature Center on 5th Street:
Monday February 17, 2014 7:00pm - 9:00pm Presentation: Parallel Processing in R presented by Dr. Norm Matloff, Computer Science Dept., UC Davis The R programming language <http://www.r-project.org/> has become the lingua franca of the data science world. It takes an object-oriented, functional programming point of view, and has outstanding graphics libraries. Best of all, it is open source. R is not inherently parallel, lacking threads and message-passing operations. However, due to a tremendous need for parallelism, especially in this era of Big Data, a number of parallel libraries have been developed. Dr. Matloff will discuss several in this talk, one each for these platforms: clusters; multicore; cloud; and GPU. (Most of these are OS-agnostic, but the multicore solutions run only on Linux and other Unix-family systems.) R is close enough to C that those without background in R should be able to follow the presentation easily[*]. Similarly, though the talk will assume a passing familiarity with threads, those lacking such background should be able to follow the presentation as well. [*] Dr. Matloff has an R Quick Start tutorial located here: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/132/PLN/ProbStatBook.pdf About the speaker: Dr. Norm Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, and was formerly a professor of statistics at that university. He is a former database software developer in Silicon Valley, and has been a statistical consultant for firms such as the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan. Professor Matloff was a founding member of the UC Davis Department of Statistics. He designed the undergraduate majors in Statistics, and for many years was a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Statistics, which administered the Statistics PhD and Master's program. He served on the GGCS Executive Committee, and continues to have ties with the Statistics Dept., through service on PhD examining committees, presenting seminars and so on. Dr. Matloff is a recognized expert on statistical computing and the R data language. His book on the R programming language, "The Art of R Programming", published in 2011, is considered one of the leading works of its kind, and has been translated to Japanese, Korean and Chinese. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Statistical Software, and has recently presented invited papers in this field at Interface 2012--the Future of Statistical Computing, userR! 2012 and JSM 2013. He is on the organizing board of the Bay Area useR Group. This meeting will be held at: Explort Nature Center 3141 5th Street Davis, CA 95616 For more details on this meeting, visit: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/ For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit: http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/ ------------ About LUGOD: ------------ The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source and Free Software. Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public. You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/ and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879 Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/ -- Bill Kendrick [email protected] Public Relations Officer Linux Users' Group of Davis http://www.lugod.org/ (Your address: [email protected] ) _______________________________________________ vox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -bill! Sent from my computer _______________________________________________ vox-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-announce
