Limerick, Ireland – Julia Computing will participate in Career Zoo’s ‘Tech on the Wild Atlantic Way’ event in Limerick, Ireland on February 1, 2020.
Julia Computing’s Avik Sengupta (VP Engineering) will lead a workshop on ‘Machine Learning with Julia’.
‘Tech on the Wild Atlantic Way’ is the premier recruiting, networking and training event in Ireland for tech, biotech, aviation and engineering firms and workers.
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 works with GPUs, TPUs, multithreading and parallel processing to deliver seamless unlimited scalability from a single CPU to thousands of nodes, cores and threads in the public or private cloud. Julia has run at petascale on 9,300 Knights Landing (KNL) nodes with 650,000 cores and 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 has been downloaded more than 12 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 is used by hundreds of firms worldwide in engineering, biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, aviation, manufacturing and medicine for image and pattern recognition, flight path planning, risk analysis, optimization and more. Examples include:
Path BioAnalytics: Path BioAnalytics is a computational biotech company using precision medicine for drug discovery and development and treatment of disease. By switching to Julia, Path BioAnalytics decreased computation 65x, increased accuracy 55% and significantly reduced their code base.
Lincoln Labs: Lincoln Labs works with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop and deploy the next generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS-X). They use Julia to compute 650 billion decision points within an optimized logic table to identify failures. Julia reduced the time required to conduct these computations by several years.
Brazilian National Institute for Space Research: Brazil’s space mission planning research institute uses Julia to plan space missions. They leverage Julia’s superior speed and ease of use to build a simulator, create multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) tools for space mission planning and design a attitude and orbit control subsystem (AOCS).
Contextflow: Contextflow uses Julia for artificial intelligence to search and analyze medical images to improve the speed and accuracy of medical diagnosis and treatment. Julia reduced the time required for image searching from up to 20 minutes to less than 2 seconds.
Aviva: One of Europe’s largest insurers uses Julia for risk analysis, including Solvency II compliance. According to Tim Thornham, Aviva’s Director of Financial Modeling, “Solvency II compliant models in Julia are one thousand times faster, use 93% fewer lines of code and took one-tenth the time to implement” compared with their legacy system.
About Julia Computing
Julia Computing was founded in 2015 by all the creators of Julia to provide products including JuliaTeam, JuliaSure and JuliaRun to businesses and researchers using Julia.
As of Jan 1, 2020, Julia has been downloaded more than 12.95 million
times – an increase of 77% in just one year. Julia use and popularity
grew by double digits last year on every one of the 30+ metrics we
track, including those listed below.
Cumulative Julia Growth Statistics
Total as of Jan 1, 2019
Total as of Jan 1, 2020
Growth
Number of News Articles Mentioning Julia or Julia Computing
253
468
+85%
Discourse Views (Julia Forums)
12,656,734
22,920,570
+81%
Julia Downloads (JuliaLang.org + Docker Hub + JuliaPro)
7,305,737
12,950,630
+77%
Published Citations of Julia: A Fast Dynamic Language for Technical Computing (2012) + Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing (2017)
1,048
1,680
+60%
YouTube Julia Language Channel Views
1,013,276
1,562,223
+54%
Julia Computing Pharmacometrics Webinar Featuring PumasAI and
Pumas.jl: Julia Computing is hosting a free one hour Webinar on Friday
Jan 24 from 12-1 pm EST (US) to discuss pharmacology modeling using Pumas.jl. The Webinar is led by Vijay Ivaturi,
Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of
Pharmacy who initiated and leads the Pumas
project. Please click here
to register.
Alan Edelman’s Sidney Fernbach Award Presentation on the ‘Power of
Language’ Now Available on YouTube: Alan Edelman accepted the Sidney
Fernbach Award at SC19 with a presentation on the ‘Power of
Language’. This presentation is now available on
YouTube. Alan is
co-creator of Julia, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Julia Computing,
director of the Julia Lab at MIT and Professor of Applied Mathematics at
MIT. He was awarded the Sidney Fernbach Award for “outstanding
breakthroughs in high-performance computing, linear algebra, and
computational science and for contributions to the Julia programming
language.”
JuliaCon 2020 Deadlines:JuliaCon
2020 will take place July 27-31 at ISCTE –
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal.
JuliaCon 2020 Call for
Proposals: JuliaCon 2020
proposals are due March 7, 2020. Proposal types include talks,
lightning talks, minisymposia, workshops, posters and ‘Birds of a
Feather’ breakout sessions. Please review submission guidelines,
prepare and submit your
proposal no later than March
7, 2020. Mentorship is also available for new presenters.
Early Bird Ticket Discount:
Early Bird Tickets are available for purchase now through April
20, 2020. Please purchase
your tickets early to take advantage of discounted pricing.
JuliaCon 2020 Sponsors:
JuliaCon relies on the support of sponsors. Click here for more information
about becoming a JuliaCon sponsor.
Julia #1 Most Exciting New Language for Bioinformatics:
Bioinformatics scientist Albert Vilella conducted a survey
and identified Julia as the #1 most exciting new language for
bioinformatics.
Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning: MIT instructor
Chris Rackauckas has published his lecture
notes on parallel computing and
scientific machine learning. Lectures include introductions to Julia,
scientific machine learning, code optimization, high performance
computing, parallelism, ordinary differential equations, automatic
differentiation, differentiable programming, GPU computing, neural
networks and more.
Julia for High Schoolers: Julia Computing co-founder and CTO (Tools)
Keno Fischer participated in a Skype a
Scientist session with students at
Athens High School in Athens, Alabama. Keno discussed programming
languages, supercomputers, and how to get started on programming as a
high school student.
Julia On the March: James Warner asks
“Is Julia Set to Take Over Python the Same Way Python Took Over Java?”
Click here
to read more.
Julia Computing Enterprise Solutions:Contact Julia
Computing for more information about
putting Julia to work for your organization, deploying Julia more
efficiently, effectively and at scale.
JuliaSure: JuliaSure
provides enterprise support and indemnity for organizations
using Julia.
JuliaTeam: JuliaTeam
provides enterprise governance including private and package
development, deployment, management, security, support
and indemnity.
JuliaRun: JuliaRun allows
you to scale Julia deployment from a single machine to dozens or
hundreds of nodes in a public or private cloud environment,
including AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
JuliaBox 30 Day Free Trial:JuliaBox
is now available with a 30 day free trial. JuliaBox is the fastest and
easiest way to start using Julia right away with no download required. Register today to start your 30 day free
trial.
JuliaBox Academic Discount: Hundreds of students and faculty at
universities around the world use JuliaBox for classroom instruction and
learning. Use free and open source
materials to design your own course
using Julia. JuliaBox starts at just $7 per month including a 50%
academic discount. Sign up online or contact Julia Computing to take
advantage of the academic discount or for more information.
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 more than 300 Julia jobs currently listed on Indeed.com, including jobs at Accenture,
Airbus, Amazon, AstraZeneca, AT&T, Barnes & Noble, BlackRock, Capital
One, CBRE, Charles River Analytics, Citigroup, Comcast, Conde Nast,
Cooper Tire & Rubber, Disney, Dow Jones, Facebook, Gallup, Genentech,
General Electric, Google, Huawei, Ipsos, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG,
Lockheed Martin, Match, McKinsey, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Nielsen,
Novartis, OKCupid, Opendoor, Oracle, Pandora, Peapod, Pfizer, Raytheon,
Spectrum, Wells Fargo, Zillow, Brown, BYU, Caltech, Dartmouth, Emory,
Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Louisiana State University, Massachusetts
General Hospital, MIT, Penn State, Princeton, UC Davis, University of
Chicago, University of Delaware, University of Kentucky, UNC-Chapel
Hill, USC, University of Virginia, Argonne National Laboratory, Federal
Reserve Bank, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, State of Wisconsin
and many more.
Purchase or obtain license information for Julia products such as
JuliaSure, JuliaTeam, or JuliaRun
Obtain pricing for Julia consulting projects for your organization
Schedule Julia training for your organization
Share information about exciting new Julia case studies or use cases
Spread the word about an upcoming conference, workshop, training,
hackathon, meetup, talk or presentation involving Julia
Partner with Julia Computing to organize a Julia meetup, conference,
workshop, training, hackathon, talk or presentation involving Julia
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
12.95 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.
Julia Computing Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Alan Edelman accepted the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award at SC19 with a presentation on The Power of Language.
According to IEEE, Edelman received the award “for outstanding breakthroughs in high-performance computing, linear algebra and computational science, and for contributions to the Julia programming language.”
Alan Edelman is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT and Principal Investigator at the MIT Julia Lab. In addition to the Sidney Fernbach Award, Alan’s other awards include the Charles Babbage Prize, Gordon Bell Prize, Chauvenet Prize, Householder Prize, Edgerly Science Partnership Award, Lester R. Ford Award (with Gilbert Strang) and the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra Prize.
