Open Source Scientific Computing

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Yes, I was late to the session I proposed...

When will the magic pixie dust come down and magically parallelize my code?

Stuff mentioned

Sage - new computer algebra system
Hadoop - parallel computing 
http://cca08.org/
openMP
R Project
ipython
GrandCentral for Xcode
pyprocessing  - included in python 2.6
CUDA - not open source
openCL
cython
ctypes

Why are scripting language package systems incompatible?

Scientific Distributions:

Knob
Rocks
cAos

Insight Journal (ITK)

DataVerse - project at Harvard http://thedata.org

Managing metadata

Stuff we want to do that we can't right now:

Computer Vision

 OpenCV
 gpuCV

Peer Review

Inline editing of scientific documents