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Lots of interesting science talks from Pycon ZA
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From: Tim McNamara <mcnamara....@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:35:06 +1300
Local: Sat, Oct 13 2012 5:35 pm
Subject: Lots of interesting science talks from Pycon ZA
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NZ may have missed out on the bulk of SKA, but that doesn't mean the
Python community wont be enriched. Here are some talks that are fairly
interesting with a science angle. There are several others available,
including a few talks from the Pypy devs available on the YouTube
channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/pyconza

"Control and Monitoring of the KAT Telescope" by Neilen Marais and
Charles de Villiers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcE9npmQQ0

 - fairly nice introduction to robotics/automation and radio astronomy
 - includes a live demo of their bespoke RPC format, KATCP
 - describes adding proxies to simulate concurrent connections to sensors
 - talk starts off a little nervously, but is well paced

"High-performance Computing with Python" by Kevin Colville and Andy Rabagliati
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsgwwqYGDx0

 - introduces HPC and parallel programming well
 - applying MPI in Python programs using mpi4pi
 - Python for processing 100TB
 -- Earth observations
 -- hdf5, netcdf, pytables

"MeerKAT science with Python" by Simon Ratcliffe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lM1rswH0wA

 - How to integrate Python into a business/org
 -- Python is everywhere in the telescope (see slide at 18:30)
 - developed a numpy transport language
 - iPython
 -- can control whole telescope
 -- access live streams; on-the fly experiments
 -- interesting interactive plotting extension/demo
(http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/)
 - Python's HDF5 implementations can be faster than the C ones on real problems
 - Team working on a library for compressing of sensor data
 -- currently 5x faster than state of art C++
 -- unreleased

The SKA South Africa team have 31 public repos: https://github.com/ska-sa


 
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