Summer Language Seminar: The R Project

This time of year the HPC world seems to be a little slow. Of course, it is summer and many people are on vacation (I have just returned) and normally not much seems to happen until September. Although in the middle of writing this I just read the news that Amazon introduced EC2 for HPC. I’ll be looking into this later and try to get some more details.

I often like to write about topical issues, particularly those may have far reaching effects on the HPC market. When in the “HPC dry season,” I often turn to the next best thing; programming parallel computers. When I discuss parallel programming, I often talk about functional approaches versus imperative approaches. You can find some background here, but the upshot is functional languages do not have looping structures and don’t require the programmer to manage “state” as in traditional “procedural” or…

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