JuliaCon 2025

Julian P Samaroo

RSE at MIT's JuliaLab, author of AMDGPU.jl, and maintainer of Dagger.jl. I want to improve the accessibility of HPC so that everyone can easily and productively scale their code to the max!


Sessions

07-23
15:00
30min
Dagger 2025: Cool New Things
Julian P Samaroo, Felipe Tomé

Dagger.jl makes your code go fast, now in innovative new ways! Come here about what's new in Dagger since JuliaCon 2024, how Dagger has continued to develop over the past year, and what you have to look forward to by JuliaCon 2026!

Julia for High-Performance Computing
Cathedral Room G24 - If Room
07-24
10:50
30min
Cancellation, AKA the Big Red Button
Julian P Samaroo

What do you do when everything goes to crap? You hit the big red button, of course! Otherwise known as Ctrl-C, we'll discuss what Ctrl-C does, why it does its job poorly, and how cancellation can help your library or application become much better behaved when the world around them lights on fire!

The State and Future of Julia I/O
Cathedral Room 324 - Else Room
07-25
10:00
60min
Dagger.jl Birds of a Feather
Julian P Samaroo, Felipe Tomé, Rabab Alomairy

Round-table discussion of everything about Dagger.jl. Success or failure stories, ideas for new features, discussion of existing bugs or missing documentation, and more!

General
Lawrence Room 107 - Method Room
07-25
14:40
10min
What's new in AMDGPU.jl
Julian P Samaroo

Latest changes, features and performance improvements in AMDGPU.jl which provides AMD GPU programming support in Julia.

JuliaGPU minisymposium
Cathedral Room 324 - Else Room
07-25
15:30
30min
JuliaGPU panel discussion: where to go from here?
Katharine Hyatt, Tim Besard, Julian P Samaroo

In this panel we'll sum up where the wider JuliaGPU ecosystem is today and invite feedback from developers and users on where we should focus efforts in the year to come.

JuliaGPU minisymposium
Cathedral Room 324 - Else Room