From July 28 to July 30, the annual conference JuliaCon 2021 will be held, dedicated to the use of the Julia language, designed to perform high-performance scientific computing. This year the conference will be held online, registration is free.
From now until July 27, a series of thematic seminars will be held for the participants of the conference, where the solution of specific problems will be considered in detail. Seminars involve a different level of familiarity with the language: from advanced to zero. Every day, from 15:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, there will be two parallel seminars on different topics.
Julia is a high-level programming language that can be considered as a more high-performance analogue of Matlab, R and Python for data processing and analysis, machine learning, physical process modeling, or as a more convenient analogue of Fortran, C and C ++, providing greater comfort in work with a similar performance of the resulting programs.
Julia programs can run on multi-core CPUs, GPUs, clusters, and quantum computers. The language itself and all the tools necessary for its operation are free. Despite the fact that the language is relatively young (version 1.0 was released in 2018), it is already actively used in the scientific community and interest in it continues to grow.
In addition to directly performing scientific calculations, Julia is increasingly used as the main language for teaching disciplines related to data processing and mathematical modeling, publishing algorithms in scientific articles. Currently, an active community has formed, packages have been stabilized to solve specific problems. There is a possibility of interaction with other programming languages, for example, using libraries from R and Python.
The forthcoming conference will cover both questions of direct programming and solving various applied problems from various fields, including those not related to scientific research. The conference is aimed both at participants who are just getting acquainted with the possibilities of the language, and at advanced users.
Source: opennet.ru