Potential Topics for THW Meetings

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• Several people have requested a meeting on using your graphics card for scientific computing. Luckily, there is a professor at UW that teaches a class on this very topic. He has agreed to speak at our meeting on Sept. 25th 2009.

• Puneet Kishor has offered to speak about his favorite tool - the Perl Data Language (PDL)

• Matt Terry has offered to speak about the text editor - VIM

• Katy Huff really wants to hear about mapping simulation data on a globe. Volunteer with hacker.within.admin@… and pass on your knowledge of geophysical data mapping, plotting data onto google earth with KML, and Python plotting tools for global simulations. Pretty please?

• Kyle Oliver suggested a meeting on profiling/debugging tools, such as gprof, gdb, ddd, etc...

• Steve has offered to give an introductory presentation on using Open-GL

• Stu would like to hear about multilingual (Python, C++, Fortran) coding workflows.

• Matt is interested in everyone's research. What languages and tools do you use? What's your workflow?