[Crib-list] SPEAKER: SUDARSHAN RAGHUNATHAN (Microsoft) -- Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar (CRIBB) -- Friday, May 4, 2012 -- TIME: 12:00 Noon in Building 32, Room 124 (Stata Bldg.)

[Shirley Entzminger]

 		   COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012
TIME:		12:00 PM    (Note Time)
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124  (Stata Center)

Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124.


TITLE:	Microsoft Cloud Numerics:
 	A distributed framework for large-scale numerical and data analysis


SPEAKER:	SUDARSHAN RAGHUNATHAN   (Microsoft)


ABSTRACT:

As business and scientific datasets get larger and larger, they become 
increasing difficult to analyze in an efficient and productive manner. 
This is particularly true for analyses that are most conveniently 
expressed in terms of matrix and array computations.

In this talk, we describe Microsoft Cloud Numerics 
(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlazurelabs/labs/numerics.aspx), a 
distributed in-memory .NET library for performing numerical analysis on 
large dense and sparse datasets on Windows Azure.  Data is exposed to the 
programmer via the notion of distributed multi-dimensional arrays that are 
supplemented by a large library of basic math, linear algebra, statistics 
and signal processing functions. The Cloud Numerics runtime then 
efficiently maps high-level operations on distributed arrays in .NET to 
highly-tuned lower-level primitives and library calls.

Although CloudNumerics is currently exposed only to .NET languages such as 
C#, F# and IronPython, the underlying distributed array infrastructure is 
designed to be bound easily and naturally to a number of other 
environments for data analysis. Towards the end of the talk, we will 
briefly cover some of the ongoing work on binding to environments other 
than .NET.

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