Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-12-04 Thread Alexey Khudyakov
2009/12/4 Roman Salmin : > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +, Matthias Görgens wrote: >> > _So my strong opinion that solution is only DSL not EDSL_ >> >> Why do you think they will learn your DSL, if they don't learn any >> other language? > I didn't said that they didn't learn any langua

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-12-04 Thread Roman Salmin
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:43:42PM +, Matthias Görgens wrote: > > _So my strong opinion that solution is only DSL not EDSL_ > > Why do you think they will learn your DSL, if they don't learn any > other language? I didn't said that they didn't learn any language. They learn languages, but on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-12-04 Thread Matthias Görgens
>  _So my strong opinion that solution is only DSL not EDSL_ Why do you think they will learn your DSL, if they don't learn any other language? And if your DSL includes general purpose stuff, like functions, control structures, data structures, you'll re-invent the wheel. Probably porly. ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-12-04 Thread Roman Salmin
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > > > http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/10/13/domain-specific-languages-for-domain-specific-problems/ > > It advocates for Haskell + EDSLs, much as we have been discussing in > this thread. > I am think that use of EDSLs for Physics (and similar

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-13 Thread Daryoush Mehrtash
Of all the projects that are in the HackageDB, how many, or what % do you say developed an EDSL? daryoush On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > Don Stewart writes: > > > Hey all, > > > > Following up on this, I'm presenting a position paper tomorrow on the > > use of EDSLs to

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-13 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Don Stewart writes: > Hey all, > > Following up on this, I'm presenting a position paper tomorrow on the > use of EDSLs to improve productivity and lower cost when developing code > for new high performance architectures (like GPUs). > > > http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/10/13/domain-specifi

Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-13 Thread Don Stewart
Hey all, Following up on this, I'm presenting a position paper tomorrow on the use of EDSLs to improve productivity and lower cost when developing code for new high performance architectures (like GPUs). http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/10/13/domain-specific-languages-for-domain-specific-prob

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-03 Thread Don Stewart
dons: > And note we are pushing precisely on the use of DSLs in or on Haskell > for *portability* of the domain-scientists code in a number of areas > right now: > > * data parallel algorithms (targetting cpu , gpu) > Accelerate: > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/acceler

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-03 Thread Don Stewart
And note we are pushing precisely on the use of DSLs in or on Haskell for *portability* of the domain-scientists code in a number of areas right now: * data parallel algorithms (targetting cpu , gpu) Accelerate: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-0.6.0.0

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Piponi
Yesterday I was at a talk by Pat Hanrahan on embedded DSLs and GPUs at the nvidia GPU conference: http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu_technology_conference.html Pat argued that the only way forward to achieve usable computing power for physics on heterogeneous computers (eg. multicore+GPU) is through

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-03 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 23:42:57 Casey Hawthorne написал: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:24:11 +0200, you wrote: > >I?m a physicist, so I think they would be attracted by something like > > > >Haskell: high level physics modelling at Fortran speeds > > > >Haskell: mathematics beyond numerical c

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-02 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hi Edgar No-one seems to have pointed you to the Maestro: http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/arpap/ The quantum mechanics one might be the most directly useful, but they are all great reads: http://users.info.unicaen.fr/~karczma/arpap/hasiqm.pdf Best wishes Stephen 2009/9/30 : > Hi, > > I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-02 Thread John D. Ramsdell
"Haskell for closing the gap between specification and code" On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can > attract physicists. Anyone has som

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-10-01 Thread Paul Johnson
I can't help with the title, but you might show how Haskell can help avoid the subtle bugs that create erroneous results. Start with the dimensional library (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dimensional). Paul. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread edgar
On Wed, 30/Sep/2009 at 22:21 +0400, Khudyakov Alexey wrote: > В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 ed...@ymonad.com написал: > > Hi, > > > > I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > > Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can > >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread edgar
On Wed, 30/Sep/2009 at 22:21 +0400, Khudyakov Alexey wrote: > В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 ed...@ymonad.com написал: > > Hi, > > > > I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > > Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can > >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread edgar
On Wed, 30/Sep/2009 at 22:27 +0200, Max Rabkin wrote: > I am *not* a physicist, but I imagine many physicists know at least > something of functional analysis, algebra, Lie algebras, etc. > > However, when physicists write programs (this is my inference from the > widespread use of Fortran and the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread edgar
Good ones! Specially the second, since I will show a real example where I used Haskell to model a boson condensate. Thanks for the suggestions. Edgar On Wed, 30/Sep/2009 at 10:52 -0700, Ted Nyman wrote: > Some ideas of highly variable quality: > > Getting Functional with Physics > Bosons, Fermio

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Max Rabkin
I am *not* a physicist, but I imagine many physicists know at least something of functional analysis, algebra, Lie algebras, etc. However, when physicists write programs (this is my inference from the widespread use of Fortran and the computational assignments given to undergraduate students) they

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Jack Norton
Khudyakov Alexey wrote: В сообщении от Среда 30 сентября 2009 23:08:02 вы написали: Yep, sure did. I just hit `reply' assuming haskell-cafe was in the reply-to. I do that more often than not it seems. Going back to the OP, what area of physics, and how on earth are you going to convert year

Re: Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Casey Hawthorne
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:24:11 +0200, you wrote: >I?m a physicist, so I think they would be attracted by something like >Haskell: high level physics modelling at Fortran speeds > >Haskell: mathematics beyond numerical calculus > And, easier to make use of multi-core machines than threaded Fortr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
В сообщении от Среда 30 сентября 2009 23:29:32 Max Rabkin написал: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > Haskell: mathematics beyond numerical calculus > > I'd imagine most physicists know a fair bit of mathematics beyond > numerical calculus; what they might not know m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
В сообщении от Среда 30 сентября 2009 23:08:02 вы написали: > Yep, sure did. I just hit `reply' assuming haskell-cafe was in the > reply-to. I do that more often than not it seems. > Going back to the OP, what area of physics, and how on earth are you > going to convert years of fortran users to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Max Rabkin
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > Haskell: mathematics beyond numerical calculus I'd imagine most physicists know a fair bit of mathematics beyond numerical calculus; what they might not know much about is *computation* beyond numerical calculus. --Max _

Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I´m a physicist, so I think they would be attracted by something like Haskell: high level physics modelling at Fortran speeds Haskell: mathematics beyond numerical calculus 2009/9/30 Hi, > > I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > Brazil) university and they a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Jack Norton
Khudyakov Alexey wrote: В сообщении от Среда 30 сентября 2009 22:25:14 вы написали: Khudyakov Alexey wrote: В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 ed...@ymonad.com написал: Hi, I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) university and they

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Ted Nyman
reminds me of a well-known story, told to me some years back at cornell: richard feynman was set to deliver a series of lectures in brazil, and he spent a good deal of time learning spanish in preparation; that was until a visting professor from brazil told him he might want to try portuguese inste

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
В сообщении от Среда 30 сентября 2009 22:37:52 вы написали: > Khudyakov Alexey wrote: > > В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 ed...@ymonad.com написал: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > >> Brazil) university and they asked me for a goo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Jochem Berndsen
Khudyakov Alexey wrote: > В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 ed...@ymonad.com написал: >> Hi, >> >> I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, >> Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can >> attract physicists. Anyone has some sugg

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Khudyakov Alexey
В сообщении от 30 сентября 2009 21:42:57 ed...@ymonad.com написал: > Hi, > > I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can > attract physicists. Anyone has some suggestions? (Will be a seminar ab

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Ted Nyman
Some ideas of highly variable quality: Getting Functional with Physics Bosons, Fermions, and Monads? Haskell for Physicists Purer Programming for Physicists Use Haskell for Physics, and Say 'C'-You-Later - ted On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I will give a seminar to physicis

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 9/30/09, ed...@ymonad.com wrote: > Hi, > > I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, > Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can > attract physicists. Anyone has some suggestions? (Will be > a seminar about the use of Hask

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell for Physicists

2009-09-30 Thread edgar
Hi, I will give a seminar to physicists at USP (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) university and they asked me for a good title, something that can attract physicists. Anyone has some suggestions? (Will be a seminar about the use of Haskell to substitute C or Fortran in a lot of tasks, and how