[Crib-list] TODAY: 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]

T O D A Y . .

 		   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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