TACC Software Days I recently had the chance to speak at the UT Austin Texas Advanced Computing Center , during their Fifth Annual Scientific Software Day thanks to a kind invitation by Sergey Fomel and Victor Eijkhout . Since the audience wasn't specifically composed of Python users, I gave a general introduction to Python's role in scientific computing, but then spent most of my time presenting some of the recent work we've been doing on IPython, extending the model of basic interactive computing in what I think are interesting directions with multiple client models and new parallel computing interfaces. Sergey had asked me to provide a somewhat personal account, so the presentation is fairly biased towards my own path (and therefore IPython) through the scipy effort. Since the foucs of TACC is high-performance computing, I hope some of our new functionality on the IPython front will be useful to such users. There were some very interesting presentations about t...
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.