Lorena A. Barba Group :: Professor Lorena A Barba’s research group at the George Washington University.

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Supercomputing Conference SC16: panel on reproducibility

Prof. Lorena Barba participating in the SC16 panel "Different Architectures, Different Times: Reproducibility and Repeatability in High Performance Computing"

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Barbagroup reproducibility syllabus

Lorena Barba

Also published on the Medium publication "Hacker Noon." After my short piece, “A hard road to reproducibility,” appeared in Science, I received several emails and Twitter mentions asking for more specific tips—both about tools and documents we use in the group to train the team about reproducibility. In answer to popular demand, then, I have... Continue »

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Barba for SIAM CSE Vice-Chair

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is electing new officers for 2017–2018. Prof. Lorena A. Barba was nominated for the position of Vice-Chair. Here are Barba's election statement and SIAM biography. Members of SIAG/CSE received voting instructions via email on Oct. 31. Voting is open until Dec. 2,... Continue »

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The hard road to reproducibility

by Lorena A. Barba Science 07 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6308, pp. 142 DOI: 10.1126/science.354.6308.142 Early in my Ph.D. studies, my supervisor assigned me the task of running computer code written by a previous student who was graduated and gone. It was hell. I had to sort through many different versions of the code,... Continue »

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Tingyu Wang at the HPC Summer School

Tingyu Wang (seated, with light shorts), in the official photo of the Intl. HPC Summer School (2016).

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Numba: Tell those C++ bullies to get lost

Gilbert Forsyth

Numba: Tell those C++ bullies to get lost by Gil Forsyth This is the title of our SciPy 2016 tutorial, where we take aim at those who claim Python is not for science because its performance stinks. Wake up, world! You've been able to make Python codes fast for a long time, with Cython,... Continue »