Ben Curran
Mathematician and data scientist, interested in using Julia for high performance computing and cloud workflows
Sessions
Fugro is a global leader in geospatial data analytics, and as a part of our product workflows we need to deal with large amounts of data as efficiently as possible. In this presentation, we will describe how we use Julia to accelerate our HPC applications and how we integrate this with Amazon Web Services to distribute computing on the cloud. We will also cover some of the challenges and the insights we’ve gained on working with Julia in industry.
LASDatasets.jl is a newly open-sourced Julia package that provides a central interface for manipulating LAS (LASer) data files in Julia. LAS is a file format that stores point clouds with different types of features (e.g. intensity, colour) and is widely used across industry and research. Join us as we discuss the LAS data format and how we have combined and built upon the best features of existing LAS processing Julia packages to give a central interface for all your LAS processing needs.