Lab 3: Memory Access, Disk I/O, DataFrames (due Sept 13)

• Exercise 1: Dense Matrix-Vector Multiply: Optimizing serial code, Memory access paterns, Benchmarking

• Exercise 2: Benchmarking File I/O (no Python dependencies)

• Exercise 2: Benchmarking File I/O (& Calling Python Packages)

Additional Resources

• Getting Started with Julia on ACI

• Starting & Submitting Assignments

• Julia

  • Julia Manual

  • Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

  • Learn Julia in Y Minutes

  • Julia Language Discourse

• File Formats

  • FITSIO library written in C

  • HDF5

  • Apache Arrow

• Julia packages for reading files

  • Julia's FileIO.jl high-level API

  • Julia's JLD2.jl package

  • Julia's HDF5.jl package

  • Julia's FITSIO.jl package

  • Julia's Apache Arrow.jl implementation

  • Feather.jl

  • PyCall.jl documentation.

• Querying DataFrames

  • Query.jl

  • DataFramesMeta.jl

  • JuliaDB.jl

• Miscelaneous

  • Regular expressions in julia

  • Astropy