Software Engineering Radio

On Banks and Scala, lots of them may be experimenting with Scala because they already have a large existing java infrastructure, so they:
- trust the JVM
- want compatibility with existing local code
- want compatibility with libraries they have training/experience with

[...] Scala Update with Martin Odersky [...]

So, basically they are building an AbstractSilverBulletFactoryFactory? (SCNR)

[...] Engineering Radio interview with Martin Odersky I’ve just listened to SE Radio’s latest episode, an interview with Martin Odersky on, well, Scala, of course. For me, the most interesting points [...]

For gaining real speed-ups when parallelizing iterative solvers (e.g., computational fluid dynamics) it is sometimes necessary to reduce inter-core communication by relaxing the dependencies between data elements. Thus, the parallel algorithm solves a different problem than the sequential one, but faster and eventually with same results (at least it was like that in the 90s when I did my PhD).

After listening to this very interesting episode (thanks!), I wonder how this could be expressed with the Scala/DSL-approach, where the the goal is to hide concurrency under the hood. It could be a challenge to abstract from parallelism and allow close interaction of numerics, physics and software at the same time…

I absolutely loved this interview. Thanks Markus!