Ahoj!
Tahle prednaska by mohla byt zajimava i pro ruzne brmlabaky. Kona se v budove MFF UK na Malostranskem namesti.
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Vazene kolegyne a vazeni kolegove, koncem ledna bude v Praze premiera filmu The Imitation Game (Kod Enigmy). Pri teto prilezitosti fakulta pozvala prof. Jacka Copelanda, jednoho z prednich odborniku na zivot a dilo Alana Turinga. Prof. Jack Copeland, krome jineho, prednese prednasku na MFF UK dne 29.1.2015 v 16.00 v poslucharne S5. Nazev a abstrakt prednasky je nize. Srdecne Vas na prednasku zvu. Antonin Kucera.
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Turing: From Breaking Enigma to Deciphering the Mind
At the turn of the millennium Time magazine listed Alan Turing among the twentieth century's 100 greatest minds, alongside the Wright brothers, Albert Einstein, DNA busters Crick and Watson, and the discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming. Turing's achievements during his short life of 42 years were legion. Best known as the genius who broke some of Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who click or touch to open are familiar with the impact of his ideas. To Turing we owe the brilliant innovation of storing applications, and the other programs necessary for computers to do our bidding, inside the computer's memory, ready to be opened when we wish. We take for granted that we use the same slab of hardware to shop, manage our finances, type our memoirs, play our favourite music and videos, and send instant messages across the street or around the world. Like many great ideas this one now seems as obvious as the cart and the arch, but with this single invention—the stored-program universal computer—Turing changed the world.
Turing was a theoretician's theoretician, yet like Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton before him he also had immensely practical interests. In 1945 he designed a vast stored-program electronic computer called the Automatic Computing Engine, or ACE. Turing's sophisticated ACE design achieved commercial success as the English Electric Company's DEUCE, one of the earliest electronic computers to go on the market. In those days—the first eye-blink of the Information Age—the new machines sold at a rate of no more than a dozen or so a year. But in less than four decades, Turing's ideas transported us from an era where 'computer' was the term for a human clerk who did the sums in the back office of an insurance company or science lab, into a world where many have never known life without the Internet.
'Turing: From Breaking Enigma to Deciphering the Mind' is an introduction to Turing and his ideas, from the universal computing machine of 1936 through Bletchley Park and the ACE to his controversial views on computability and the mind.
Jack Copeland, January 2015
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Keby vám bolo málo prednášok, tak ešte jedna:
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Vec: Pozvanka na prednasku profesora G. Ostrouchova, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, na tema : Pouziti programoveho systemu R na superpocitacove platforme Narodniho superpocitacoveho centra CR.
Vazene kolegyne a kolegove,
jak jste jiste zaregistrovali, na Ostravske Univerzite byla nedavno provoznena prvni faze patrne nejvetsiho super-pocitace v CR v ramci Narodniho superpocitacoveho centra CR.
Pri teto prilezitosti se ve dnech 12-15 ledna 2015 v Ostrave kona Winter School 2015 - HPC Tools for Data Intensive Processing (https://events.prace-ri.eu/conferenceProgram.py?confId=330#Analytics.).
V navaznosti na tuto Zimni skolu si Vas dovoluji jmenem KPMS MFF UK a Ceske statisticke spolecnosti pozvat na prednasku Profesora George (Jiriho) Ostrouchova o moznosti vyuziti programoveho systemu R na pocitacove platforme Narodniho superpocitacoveho centra (http://www.it4i.cz/).
Prednaska se kona v patek 16. ledna 2015 od 13.10 v poslucharne K3 na MFF UK v Praze Karline, Sokolovska 83, 2. patro. Zajemci jsou srdecne vitani.
Jaromir Antoch
PS Tem, kteri pozvanku dostanou z ruznych zdroju, se omluvam za sireni redundantni informace.
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ABSTRACT
The R language has been called the "lingua franca" of data analysis and statistical computing. This tutorial will introduce attendees to the basics of the R language with a focus on its recent high performance extensions enabled by the ``Programming with Big Data in R'' (pbdR) project, which is aimed at medium to large HPC platforms. The overview part of the tutorial will include a brief introduction to R and an introduction to the pbdR project and its use of scalable HPC libraries.
The first hands-on portion will include pbdR's profiling and its simplified interface to MPI. We will cover a range of examples beginning with simple MPI use through simple examples with data to more advanced uses in statistics and data analysis. We will also introduce students to concepts of partitioning data across nodes of a large platform.
The advanced topics portion will cover pbdR's connections to scalable libraries and their partitioned data structure requirements. We will cover ways of reading in and redistributing data. This will include R's native data input, input from HDFS, as well as scalable input via ADIOS. We also cover more advanced examples that make use of the distributed data structures and object oriented components of R for identical parallel and serial syntax capability in many functions.
The lecture will be given by George Ostrouchov. George is a Senior Research Scientist in the Scientific Data Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Joint Faculty Professor of Statistics at the University of Tennessee. His doctoral work was on large sparse least squares computations in data analysis. His research interests have been for many years at the intersection of high performance computing and statistics. He initiated and continues to lead the pbdR project. George is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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