Start: Apr 4 2017 18:30 End: Apr 4 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 *PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION* Tuesday, April 4, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: • Adetokunbo "Xero" Arogbonlo, SageMath • Stewart Smith, Simultaneous multithreading Adetokunbo "Xero" Arogbonlo, SageMath ------------------------------------- SageMath is FOSS mathematics software. Big understatement! It is a confederation of some of the best FOSS tools for mathematics and scientific computing. Some of the tools that make up SageMath include: Jupyter notebook, Maxima, GLPK, Gniac, Numpy, R, Scipy, GAP, FLINT, Sympy, Macaulay2, Blas, Atlas and Lapack to mention but a few. SageMath brings all these tools (complete and successful programs in their own right) into a single environment with a uniform interface and one simple language to bind them all: Python. SageMath is used in a wide range of fields by people of varying levels of education and expertise. It is used in cryptography, mathematics research, engineering, undergraduate courses and even high school. The development of Sagemath is very active with multiple releases every year. This talk will present a broad overview of SageMath and some of its capabilities with live demos. Xero is currently doing a PhD in Control Theory. He enjoys learning as well as intellectual challenges. Stewart Smith, Simultaneous multithreading ------------------------------------------ Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading. SMT permits multiple independent threads of execution to better utilize the resources provided by modern processor architectures. Examples include Intel's Hyperthreading and IBM POWER CPUs. Stewart will cover the attributes of modern CPUs, where we came from and what the future may hold. Stewart Smith currently works for IBM in the Linux Technology Center on KVM on POWER and OPAL firmware, giving him a job that is even harder to explain to non-Linux geek people than ever before. Previously he worked for Percona as Director of Server Development where he oversaw development of many of Percona’s software products. He comes from many years experience in databases and free and open source software development. He’s often found hacking on free software, taking photos, running, brewing beer and cycling (yes, all at the same time). He once helped build a monorail in the middle of the desert. The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.