Update (2008.08.06): I have posted the slides I have available from the minisymposium described below. The 2008 SIAM annual meeting was held July 7-11 in San Diego, and we had a healthy presence of Python-based tools for scientific computing. Randy LeVeque from U. Washington and I co-organized a 3-part minisymposium entitled Python and Sage: Open Source Scientific Computing. You can see the list of talks for parts I , II and III online. I should add that for the talks where we had cancellations, we ended up with excellent impromptu replacements by Bill Hart from Sandia National Labs and Travis Oliphant from Enthought. Our sessions were well attended (especially considering the very large number of parallel sessions at the conference) and generated lively discussion. There's clearly a need in the scientific and mathematical community for open source , high level tools that integrate well with existing high performance codes written in Fortran, C or C++, while providin...
Thoughts and notes on open scientific computing, with a focus on Python-based tools (IPython, numpy, scipy, matplotlib and friends). By Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley Statistics and Data Science Professor. Website at fernandoperez.org.