1. Python Users Group University of South Carolina
Research Cyberinfrastructure Group
and the
USC Community
10/24/2013

2. Research Cyberinfrastructure Group
Dr. Phil Moore, Director
Paul Sagona, HPC Systems Architect
Ben Torkian, Senior Applications Scientist
Nathan Elger, HPC Systems Analyst

3. Why Python? Free Community Support Easy to learn Science Engineering
Digital Humanities
Web, Database, Analytics
Finance

4. IPython*: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing
Python offers basic facilities for interactive work and a comprehensive library on top of which more sophisticated systems can be built. The IPython project provides an enhanced interactive environment that includes, among other features, support for data visualization and facilities for distributed and parallel computation.
* BATTERIES INCLUDED
Fernando Perez
Brian Granger
IEEE CS, May/June 2007

5. Pythonic Links http://www.scipy.org http://www.reddit.com/r/python
/r/ipython
/r/learnpython
/r/scipy/

6. High performance computing
Paul Sagona
What is HPC?
HPC resources at USC
Challenges
Research groups utilizing HPC
Scientific computing driving new technologies (GPU and PHI)
XSEDE

7. ANACONDA
Ben Torkian
Completely free enterprise-ready Python distribution for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing
Features :
Easy to install and upgrade
Supports Multicore and GPU computations
MKL capable
Wide data source support
Packages
NumPy SciPy Pandas PyTables h5py
Matplotlib IPython Spyder Qt/PySide VTK
Numexpr Astropy Cython LLVM LLVMpy Numba
Scikit-learn Scikit-image NLTK NetworkX MayaVi

8. What’s next? Research & Technology Workshops Special Interest Groups
Python and Accelerators
USC Community Presentations