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Newsletter August 2020

JuliaCon 2020: Nearly 30,000 Julia users worldwide tuned in to JuliaCon 2020 on YouTube – more than 3x the number who viewed last year – and JuliaCon 2020 registrants represent 115 different countries. We extend our gratitude and appreciation to all those who made JuliaCon 2020 the biggest and best JuliaCon ever – participants, presenters, organizers, committee members, sponsors, volunteers, mentors and the entire Julia community. If you missed any JuliaCon 2020 presentations, they are now available online.

JuliaCon 2020 Wrap-Up Blog Posts

JuliaTeam and JuliaRun Presentation: If you missed Dr. Matt Bauman’s demonstration of JuliaHub’s upcoming compute capabilities during JuliaCon, you can find it online, along with nearly 20 other free Julia Computing Webinars and microtrainings.

Pumas-AI: Pumas-AI is a new pharmaceutical startup company that launched this week. The launch event has been watched by hundreds of viewers around the globe.  Pumas-AI uses artificial intelligence in Julia to accelerate drug development and personalize patient care. For more information, visit Pumas-AI.

JuliaHub Launch: Julia Computing is pleased to announce the launch of JuliaHub’s compute capabilities. JuliaHub provides a seamless experience for Julia users to manage their packages, find documentation, make open source contributions and run large compute-intensive workloads. Click here to sign up to receive notification when cloud computing is available via JuliaHub, and click here to register for a demonstration of JuliaHub’s new cloud computing capabilities.

Julia Computing Finance Webinar and JuliaHub Product Demo: Julia Computing’s Dr. Matt Bauman will present a free Webinar on Accelerating Finance with Julia and a JuliaHub product demonstration. Use the links below to register.

Title

Date

Presenter

Time

Registration link

Going on a   Bull Run:   Accelerating   Finance with   Julia

Thursday   Aug 27

Dr. Matt   Bauman, Julia   Computing   Director of   Applications   Engineering

 12-1 pm   Eastern   (US)

Click here   to register

JuliaHub Product Demo: Introducing Single Click Scaling and Deployment in the Cloud

Thursday Sep 3

Dr. Matt Bauman, Julia Computing Director of Applications Engineering

12-1 pm Eastern (US)

Click here   to register

Julia Computing Enterprise Products

  • JuliaHub: JuliaHub from Julia Computing provides a seamless experience for Julia users to manage their packages, find documentation, make open source contributions and run large compute-intensive workloads. Click here for more information.
  • JuliaRun: JuliaRun from Julia Computing helps you scale and deploy Julia using high performance computing (HPC) resources, including large parallel simulations and analyses in the cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Click here for more information.
  • JuliaSure: JuliaSure from Julia Computing provides full service development support, production support and indemnification for companies using Julia. Subscriptions are USD $99 per month. Click here to subscribe.
  • JuliaTeam: JuliaTeam from Julia Computing lets your entire enterprise work together using Julia. Collaborate, develop and manage private and public packages across your organization, manage open source licenses and benefit from continuous integration, deployment, security, indemnity and enterprise governance. Click here for more information.
  • Pumas: Pumas from Julia Computing and Pumas.ai is a comprehensive platform for pharmaceutical modeling and simulation, providing a single tool for the entire drug development pipeline. Click here for more information.

Julia Computing Is Coming to Your Favorite Online Conferences: Julia Computing is participating in several upcoming online conferences. Please join our Julia talks and workshops or connect with us.

Julia 1.5 Release: Julia 1.5 includes exciting new features such as struct layout and allocation optimizations, multithreading API stabilization and improvements and much more. More information is available here.

Julia Community Prizes: The winners of the 2020 Julia Community Prizes are Huda Nassar, Mosè Giordano and Chris Elron. Congratulations!

Julia User & Developer Survey 2020: The second annual Julia User & Developer Survey was presented during JuliaCon. Results are available here.

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

  • ZDNet: Programming Language Julia Version 1.5 Is Out: Lots of New Features, Better Performance
  • Analytics India: JuliaCon 2020 Is Live and Virtual
  • Analytics India: Julia and PyCaret Latest Versions
  • Daily Excelsior: Data Science – the New Paradigm of Technology
  • Enterprise Talk: Julia Version 1.5 Launched
  • Analytics India: Julia v1.5 Released: Brings Lots of New Features and Better Performance
  • Dev Class: Julia 1.5 Tackles Latency and Heap Allocations Before Tossing in Another LTS Release
  • Dev Class: Bye-Bye Juno, Hello Julia for VS Code – IDE Shifts Form, Reaches 1.0
  • PC World: Learn a New Programming Language with this $15 Humble Bundle
  • SD Times: Julia 1.5 Released
  • Heise: Programmiersprache: Julia 1.5 Stabilisiert die Multithreading-API
  • Analytics Insight: What Will Be the Best Language for Data Science – Julia or Python?
  • I Programmer: Julia 1.5 Improves Struct Layout Support

Julia Blog Posts

Upcoming Julia Online Events

Recent Julia Online Events

Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships

Do you work at or know of an organization looking to hire Julia programmers as staff, research fellows or interns? Would your employer be interested in hiring interns to work on open source packages that are useful to their business? Help us connect members of our community to great opportunities by sending us an email, and we’ll get the word out.

There are hundreds of Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com. Click here to apply.

Contact Us: Please contact us if you wish to:

  • Purchase or obtain license information for Julia Computing products such as JuliaSure, JuliaTeam, JuliaRun or Pumas
  • Obtain pricing for Julia consulting projects for your organization
  • Schedule online Julia training for your organization
  • Share information about exciting new Julia case studies or use cases
  • Spread the word about an upcoming online event involving Julia
  • Partner with Julia Computing to organize a Julia event online
  • Submit a Julia internship, fellowship or job posting

About Julia and Julia Computing

Julia is the fastest high performance open source computing language for data, analytics, algorithmic trading, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other scientific and numeric computing applications. Julia solves the two language problem by combining the ease of use of Python and R with the speed of C++. Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and unlimited scalability with minimal effort. Julia has been downloaded by users at more than 10,000 companies and is used at more than 1,500 universities. Julia co-creators are the winners of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the 2019 Sidney Fernbach Award. Julia has run at petascale on 650,000 cores with 1.3 million threads to analyze over 56 terabytes of data using Cori, one of the ten largest and most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Julia Computing was founded in 2015 by all the creators of Julia to develop products and provide professional services to businesses and researchers using Julia.

Grokking Deep Learning with Julia

Andrew Trask’s book Grokking Deep Learning is the perfect place to begin your
deep learning journey. It teaches you to build deep learning from scratch rather than
just learn the “black box” API of some library or framework. In this book you’ll train
your own neural networks to see and understand images, translate text into different
languages, and even write like Shakespeare!

The book uses Python and its math-supporting library, NumPy, to implement convolutional
neural network, RNN, and LSTM. This post is to announce the Julia companion to the book.
Julia is a new and promising language that offers the dynamic nature of Python as well
as the performance of C/C++.

You can find the Julia notebooks here. Please try them out and file issues if you find any

Newsletter July 2020

Register Now for JuliaCon 2020: JuliaCon 2020 will take place online Wednesday
July 29 through Friday July 31 from 12:30 pm – 7:30 pm GMT. Workshops are Friday
July 24 through Tuesday July 28. The schedule of events is available now.
Click here to reserve your spot

Julia Computing Virtual Booth Available During JuliaCon: Julia Computing’s
virtual booth will be available during JuliaCon. Visit JuliaCon.org during
JuliaCon to find Julia Computing’s virtual booth. Connect with a Julia
Computing expert to learn more about how to leverage Julia’s speed, power
and ease of use to improve productivity, reduce cost and speed time to market.

JuliaTeam and JuliaRun Live Demonstrations During JuliaCon: Julia Computing
will demonstrate exciting new JuliaTeam and JuliaRun product features including
VS Code integration, running Julia in your browser, single-click parallel
computing in the cloud and more. Live online demonstrations are Wednesday
July 29 (5:45 pm – 6:45 pm GMT), Thursday July 30 (11:30 am – 12:30 PM GMT)
and Friday July 31 (7:45 pm – 8:45 pm GMT). Click here to register.

Feel the Power! Julia for Energy Webinar from Julia Computing: Dr. Matt Bauman,
Julia Computing Senior Research Scientist, leads a free Julia for Energy Webinar
on Thursday July 16 from 12 noon – 1 pm Eastern (US). Space is limited
so please click here to register. Julia users
in the energy sector include AOT, EVN, Fugro Roames, Invenia, LAMPS PUC-RIO, PSR and the US Department of Energy.
Register today to reserve your spot and learn more about how Julia can help make
optimization, energy trading and modeling more efficient, faster, simpler and
less expensive.

Julia Computing Enterprise Products

  • JuliaSure:
    JuliaSure from
    Julia Computing provides full service development support,
    production support and indemnification for companies using Julia.
    Subscriptions are USD $99 per month. Click here to
    subscribe    .

  • JuliaTeam:
    JuliaTeam from
    Julia Computing lets your entire enterprise work together
    using Julia. Collaborate, develop and manage private and public
    packages across your organization, manage open source licenses and
    benefit from continuous integration, deployment, security, indemnity
    and enterprise governance. Click here for more
    information    .

  • JuliaRun:
    JuliaRun from
    Julia Computing helps you scale and deploy Julia using high
    performance computing (HPC) resources, including large parallel
    simulations and analyses in the cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure or
    Google Cloud. Click here for more
    information    .

  • Pumas: Pumas
    from Julia Computing is a comprehensive platform for pharmaceutical
    modeling and simulation, providing a single tool for the entire drug
    development pipeline. Click here for more
    information    .

The Great ML Language (Un)Debate: Dr. Huda Nassar represented Julia in the
Great ML Language (Un)Debate
to discuss the benefits of Julia compared with alternatives
such as R, Python, Javascript and Swift. The
Great ML Language (Un)Debate is available on YouTube.

Julia for Pythonistas Colab Notebook: Aurélien Geron
published the Julia for Pythonistas Colab Notebook. As Aurélien explains, “Julia looks and feels
a lot like Python, only much faster. It’s dynamic, expressive, extensible,
with batteries included, in particular for data science.”

Julia Chinese Community 2020 Summer Conference (Julia中文社区2020年夏季会议):
The Julia community in China will hold a summer conference, tentatively
scheduled for August 18-24. More information is available here.

Julia Reads CSVs 10-20x Faster than Python and R: New benchmarks are
available demonstrating that Julia reads CSV files 10-20x faster than
Python and R. Click here for more information.

MIT JuliaLab and Microsoft Tackle Pandemic Modeling: MIT JuliaLab’s Chris
Rackauckas teamed with researchers from Microsoft, University of Oxford,
Swansea University, University of Cambridge, University of Warwick, Alan
Turing Institute and Royal Society Rapid Assistance in Modeling the Pandemic (RAMP)
to build an open platform for pandemic modeling in Julia. More information is
available here.

Julia and Spark, Better Together: Julia Computing’s Avik Sengupta published an
updated blog titled Julia and Spark, Better Together
which describes how Spark.jl enables the use of Julia programs on Spark.

Argonne National Laboratory: Julia Computing’s Mike Innes presented
Building Compilers for Numerical Programming online to the US Department of
Energy Argonne National Laboratory.

Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling:
Julia Computing Chief Scientist Alan Edelman presented
High Performance Computing: The Power of Language
via the University of Warsaw Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling’s
Virtual ICM Seminars in Computer and Computational Science as part of
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020.

Julia for Climate Modeling: The Climate Modeling Alliance has published
CliMA 0.1: A First Milestone in the Next Generation of Climate Models
by Sabrina Pirzada which describes how they are using Julia to build better climate models.

Julia and Julia Computing in the News

  • ZDNet: Programming Languages: Julia Touts its Speed Edge Over Python and R
  • CScience: Comment Hydro-Québec Prévoit vos Besoins en Électricité
  • Towards Data Science: The Great CSV Showdown: Julia vs Python vs R
  • CSDN: 再见 Python，Hello Julia！
  • Analytics India: Google Adds New Privacy Testing Module In TensorFlow
  • Analytics India: Why Companies Still Struggle To Incorporate AI Into Existing Business Models
  • EFinancialCareers: Emergent Coding Languages to Learn for Technology Jobs in Finance
  • IProgrammer: SQLite Gets Jupyter Kernel

Julia Blog Posts

Upcoming Julia Online Events

Recent Julia Online Events

Julia Jobs, Fellowships and Internships

Do you work at or know of an organization looking to hire Julia programmers as staff, research
fellows or interns? Would your employer be interested in hiring interns to work on open source
packages that are useful to their business? Help us connect members of our community to great
opportunities by sending us an email, and we’ll get the word out.

There are hundreds of Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com. Click here to apply.

Contact Us: Please contact us if you wish to:

  • Purchase or obtain license information for Julia Computing products such as JuliaSure, JuliaTeam, JuliaRun or Pumas
  • Obtain pricing for Julia consulting projects for your organization
  • Schedule online Julia training for your organization
  • Share information about exciting new Julia case studies or use cases
  • Spread the word about an upcoming online event involving Julia
  • Partner with Julia Computing to organize a Julia event online
  • Submit a Julia internship, fellowship or job posting

About Julia and Julia Computing

Julia is the fastest high performance open source computing language for data, analytics, algorithmic trading,
machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other scientific and numeric computing applications.
Julia solves the two language problem by combining the ease of use of Python and R with the speed of C++.
Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and unlimited scalability with minimal effort.
Julia has been downloaded more than 17 million times and is used at more than 1,500 universities. Julia co-creators
are the winners of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the 2019 Sidney Fernbach Award.
Julia has run at petascale on 650,000 cores with 1.3 million threads to analyze over 56 terabytes of data using
Cori, one of the ten largest and most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Julia Computing was founded in 2015 by all the creators of Julia to develop products and provide
professional services to businesses and researchers using Julia.