NYCJUG/2010-08-10

J 7, beta installation, GTK, parallel programming examples, important algorithms, incremental changes: a poor approach to parallelism

Location:: downstairs at the Heartland Brewery in the Empire State Building at 34th and 5th

Agenda for 20100810

1. Beginner's regatta: looking at J 7 - see "J7InstallationFeaturesComments.pdf".


2. Show-and-tell: Overview of APL2010 paper - see
"ParallelProgrammingTowardAPracticum-NoName.pdf"


3. Advanced topics: most important algorithms - should we have them all available
in J?  See "The Most Important Algorithms.pdf" and "SIAMTopTenAlgorithms_topten.pdf".


4. Learning, teaching and promoting J, et al.: poor examples of parallelism -
can we do better?  See "BadExampleAlgosDemoPllsm.pdf", "Fibonacci Example-
PllSlower.pdf", and "FibonacciNumsInJ-annotated.pdf".  Also, does it make
sense to incrementally adapt existing, deeply serial languages to a parallel
mode?  See "LimitationsOfIncrementalAdaptionToParallelism.pdf".

Proceedings

Beginner's regatta: File:J7InstallationFeaturesComments.pdf.

Show-and-tell: Overview of File:ParallelProgrammingTowardAPracticum-NoName.pdf.

Advanced topics: most important algorithms - should we have them all available in J? See File:The Most Important Algorithms.pdf and File:SIAMTopTenAlgorithms topten.pdf.

Learning, teaching and promoting J: poor examples of parallelism - can we do better? See File:BadExampleAlgosDemoPllsm.pdf, File:Fibonacci Example-PllSlower.pdf, and File:FibonacciNumsInJ-annotated.pdf.

Also, does it make sense to incrementally adapt existing, deeply serial languages to a parallel mode? See File:LimitationsOfIncrementalAdaptionToParallelism.pdf.