JT Smith

David Mertens will give a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

Perl is awesome as processing text, but did you know that Perl can handle high performance computing, too? With the Perl Data Language, Perl can process large data at C speeds while using idiomatic Perl.

The Perl Data Language describes itself as “giving standard Perl the ability to compactly store and speedily manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays which are the bread and butter of scientific computing.” What does this mean? In this talk, I will give an introduction to PDL from a Perl programmer’s perspective. I will cover basic PDL operations from creation and access to standard manipulations and will explaing basic plotting. Some of the more advanced topics will include slicing arbitrary chunks of data and, if time allows, writing code that interfaces with PDL’s processing engine.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]