by Admin | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce the newest addition to our fiscally sponsored projects: Cantera. Cantera is an open source software suite which helps users solve problems involving thermodynamics, chemical reaction rates, and fluid transport processes. The software is...
by Admin | Feb 9, 2018 | Blog, Projects
Re-posted with permission from https://juliacomputing.com/press/2017/09/12/julia-joins-petaflop-club.html Julia has joined the rarefied ranks of computing languages that have achieved peak performance exceeding one petaflop per second – the so-called ‘Petaflop Club.’...
by Admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog, Projects
NumFOCUS is pleased to announce that Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry are moving out of our Fiscal Sponsorship Program and transitioning to a new, merged organization, The Carpentries, that will become a member of the NumFOCUS Community Alliance. Members of the...
by Admin | Dec 13, 2017 | Blog, Projects
Cross-posted with permission from the blog of Shogun‘s Heiko Strathmann, who recently defended his Ph.D. — congrats, Heiko! — Shogun now supports Intel MKL Over the last few weeks and months, a few things came together that make Shogun both a lot easier to install,...
by Admin | Nov 25, 2017 | Blog, Projects
re-posted with permission from Software Carpentry My favorite tool is … IPython. IPython is a Python interpreter with added features that make it an invaluable tool for interactive coding and data exploration. IPython is most commonly taught via the Jupyter notebook,...
by Admin | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog, Projects
re-posted with permission from Software Carpentry My favourite tool is … the Jupyter Notebook. One of my favourite tools is the Jupyter notebook. I use it for teaching my students scientific computing with Python. Why I like it: Using Jupyter with the plugin RISE, I...
