HPCwire: Python Snakes Its Way Into HPC
Interpreted programming languages usually don't find too many friends in high performance computing. Yet Python, one of the most popular general-purpose interpreted languages, has garnered a small community of enthusiastic followers. True believers got the opportunity to hear about the language in the HPC realm in a tutorial session on Monday and a BoF session on Wednesday.
via hpcwire.com
I'm not at SC10 this year, but I am actually giving a seminar today on HPC with Python. That aside, I'm a bit bummed I missed this BoF. For our astro work, we use Python extensively for analysis, and the paper that was up on the arXiv yesterday was in fact all about this.
It's worth noting that David Beazley, the author of SWIG and a luminary in the Python community, has been involved with Python for HPC applications since sometime in the mid 90's. Python for HPC is not new!
