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

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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).

“Modeling and simulation is the real reason we do computing” and the Top1 supercomputer is close to useless. #HPC https://t.co/5qVPk1ugJa View // Reply // Retweet // Like

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 »

Starting day 4 in China—VPN randomly works or fails: error in push function, dead peer detected, handshake failed. What’s all this? #infosec View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Prof. Barba gave keynote at PyCon 2016

Lorena Barba, flanked by fellow keynote speakers and PyCon Chair, Brandon Rhodes.

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Reproducible and replicable CFD: it's harder than you think

Submitted: 13 May 2016. Preprint arXiv:1605.04339 Accepted: 13 Oct. 2016, Computing in Science and Engineering. Published: 17 Aug. 2017. Overview We do our best to accomplish reproducible research and have for years worked to improve our practices to achieve this goal. Barba made a pledge in 2012, the “Reproducibility PI Manifesto,” according to which all our research... Continue »

My reward—A gorgeous dragonfly came to visit me in the garden while I write. https://t.co/zkUIlB1OV8 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Barba group student news

Barba group students have been awarded fantastic opportunities this year! Tingyu Wang was selected to participate in the International High-Performance Computing Summer School in Slovenia (June 26 to July 1). This will be the seventh instance of this international summer school, a collaboration of the National Science Foundation XSEDE program, the European PRACE program, Calcul Canada and... Continue »