Julia Joins Petaflop Club
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.’...
Carpentries Transition From Fiscally Sponsored Project to Community Alliance Member
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...
Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox now supports Intel MKL
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,...
My Favourite Tool: IPython
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,...