[vox] Favorite memories of LUGOD?

[Eric Engelhard]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:04:52AM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:46:48PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
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> > Norm,
>  
> > I thought somehow the firm was System 76, but I see they are out of Denver. So,
> > they must not be it. 
>  
> > When are you going to talk at Lugod again? A talk on R perhaps? I did
> > not realize that you had given a talk when we used to be at Z-World on
> > "Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage" 
>  
> > Any chance you can bless Lugod with another talk sometime?
>  
> > brian
>  
> Thanks for the nice words, Brian.
> 
> I'd be happy to give a talk titled, "Parallel Processing in R," if that
> would be a good topic.  Though it would be specific to R, the material
> would have implications for any effort to parallelize a scripting
> language.  What I would discuss would be the R packages Snow, Rmpi, Rdsm
> and gputools, the latter being an R interface to GPUs.  The Rdsm package
> is one I developed.  Time permitting, I would also discuss Thrust, a
> library of C++ templates whose backend platform can be configured at
> compile time to either OpenMP or GPUs (or TBB); I've been developing an
> R library to interface to Thrust (for certain algorithms); I call it
> Rth.
> 
> Norm
>

Hi Norm,

I am an R user, but have had the misfortune of missing your talks at
LUGOD. I would definitely be interested in a presentation on parallel
R. My own parallel R experience is limited to multicore on a single
machine, but our work needs are growing.

Cheers!
Eric