Hacker News with Generative AI: Scientific Computing

Etalumis: Bringing Probabilistic Programming to Scientific Simulators at Scale (arxiv.org)
Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) are receiving widespread attention for performing Bayesian inference in complex generative models.

Probabilistic Programming, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning, Bayesian Inference

3 points by Anon84 30 days ago | 0 comments

Scientific Computing on the Sony Playstation 2 (2003) (archive.org)
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois are exploring the use of the Sony PlayStation® 2 game console for scientific computing and high-resolution visualization.

Scientific Computing, Gaming Consoles, PlayStation, University Research, History

8 points by sandwichsphinx 39 days ago | 0 comments

Scientific computing with confidence using typed dimensions (laurentrdc.xyz)
I have performed non-trivial scientific calculations, in university and beyond, for almost 15 years.

Scientific Computing, Programming, Software, Tools

97 points by g0xA52A2A 58 days ago | 47 comments

Khronos SYCL Being Updated to Increase Appeal for HPC and Scientific Computing (phoronix.com)
In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific computing applications.

HPC, Scientific Computing, Programming Languages, Open Source

4 points by sandwichsphinx 64 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Are my HPC professors right? Is Python worthless compared to C? (ycombinator.com)
I'm a PhD student implementing a finite element code. It simulates electromagnet waves passing through heterogeneous material. This code has to run in parallel, and run fast. I've been using old C libraries like PETSc to do this, and honestly, I do not enjoy working with C at all. Its esoteric and difficult to understand, and just overall feels like I'm using a tool from the 70s.

Programming Languages, PhD Research, Scientific Computing, Software Engineering

16 points by megaloblasto 84 days ago | 31 comments

My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing (quansight.com)
From no CPython C API experience to shipping a new DType in NumPy 2.0.

NumPy, Scientific Computing, Python, Programming, Software

96 points by elashri 87 days ago | 15 comments

My NumPy year: Creating a DType for the next generation of scientific computing (quansight.com)
From no CPython C API experience to shipping a new DType in NumPy 2.0.

NumPy, Scientific Computing, Programming, Data Science

85 points by sebg 88 days ago | 9 comments

Machine Learning to Computational Plasma Physics Reduced-Order Plasma Modeling (arxiv.org)
Machine learning (ML) provides a broad spectrum of tools and architectures that enable the transformation of data from simulations and experiments into useful and explainable science, thereby augmenting domain knowledge.

Machine Learning, Plasma Physics, Computational Physics, Data Science, Scientific Computing

20 points by sandwichsphinx 89 days ago | 1 comments

Building a compile-time SIMD optimized smoothing filter (scientificcomputing.rs)
I built a Savitzky-Golay filter (fancy name for a dot product with some known constants on a rolling window) and tried to optimize the crap out of it.

Optimization, Image Processing, Scientific Computing, Data Analysis

88 points by PaulHoule 112 days ago | 22 comments

CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU (github.com/cupy)
CuPy is a NumPy/SciPy-compatible array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python.

GPU Computing, Python, Scientific Computing, NumPy, SciPy

377 points by tanelpoder 120 days ago | 106 comments

Performance of Eigen vs. Blaze vs. Fastor vs. Armadillo vs. XTensor (2020) (medium.com)
It is March 2020. C++20 is almost around the corner and as a scientific C++ programmer I am quite thrilled with the new features that the language is getting.

C++, Performance, Libraries, Programming, Scientific Computing

19 points by egorpv 123 days ago | 0 comments

Ngscopeclient: Advanced T&M remote control and analysis suite (ngscopeclient.org)
Drag and drop to create complex, GPU-accelerated analysis pipelines in the filter graph editor

Software, Data Analysis, Scientific Computing, Remote Control

7 points by jdboyd 130 days ago | 0 comments

Slime mold simulation in Rust using WASM and WebGPU (github.com/plul)

Rust, WebAssembly, WebGPU, Simulation, Scientific Computing

27 points by sshine 148 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Datoviz – Vulkan-based GPU scientific visualization (C/C++/Python) (github.com/datoviz)

Visualization, GPU, Scientific Computing, C++, Python

23 points by rossant 166 days ago | 2 comments

Pixi – rust-based package manager for reproducible scientific workflows (prefix.dev)