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Newsletter October 2024 | JuliaHub at the American Modelica Conference and the American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP)

Written by JuliaHub | Oct 16, 2024

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JuliaHub and JuliaSim at the American Modelica Conference: JuliaHub and JuliaSim are being featured at this year’s American Modelica Conference October 14-16 in Storrs, Connecticut.

JuliaHub at the American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP): JuliaHub will be attending the American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP) in Phoenix, Arizona November 10-13. We will be at Booth 19. Please stop by or contact us at sales@juliahub.com to connect and schedule a virtual or in-person meeting or demonstration during the conference.

Free Webinars from JuliaHub: JuliaHub provides free one-hour Webinars on a variety of topics. Registration is free but space is limited. Click the link below to register, or watch past Webinars here.

Julia for Fusion Power Plants: General Atomics has released the Fusion Synthesis Engine (FUSE), “a state-of-the-art, open-source software designed to help build fusion power plants … written in Julia.” Click here for more information.

JuliaCon Global 2025 and JuliaCon 2024 Wrap-Up: The JuliaCon Organizing Committee has published JuliaCon Global 2025 and JuliaCon 2024 Wrap-Up. JuliaCon 2025 will be in Pittsburgh July 21-26, and the Call for Proposals will be open Nov 1, 2024 - Jan 15, 2025.

Julia 1.11 Highlights: Julia 1.11 has been released. Release notes are available here.

  • Array now implemented in Julia, new Memory type (Jameson Nash, Oscar Smith)
  • New public keyword (Lilith Hafner)
  • Manifest versioning (Ian Butterworth)
  • Improved tab completion and hinting in the REPL (Ian Butterworth, Shuhei Kadowaki)
  • Sources section in Project.toml in Pkg.jl (Kristoffer Carlsson)
  • Precompile file relocatability (Florian Atteneder)
  • Stdlib excision (Valentin Churavy, Kristoffer Carlsson)
  • ScopedValues
  • New main entry point (Keno Fischer)
  • The @time macro now reports lock conflicts (Ian Butterworth)
  • Inference enhancements (Keno Fischer, Shuhei Kadowaki)

Open Energy Modeling at JuMP-dev: Open Energy Modeling features open source energy models that can be shared, collaborated on and improved to increase energy efficiency, reduce climate change and increase access to clean, affordable energy. This year, Open Energy Modeling featured prominently at JuMP-dev, which was colocated with JuliaCon in Eindhoven. In Open Energy Modeling at JuMP-dev, Oscar Dowson provides a summary of how JuMP-dev is being used as part of Open Energy Modeling, and includes embedded YouTube videos from 2017-2024, including JuliaCon presentations.

This Month in Julia World: Stefan Krastanov’s monthly newsletter This Month in Julia World includes the latest Julia language updates. Click here for more.

New Ways to Compile Julia: Dr. Jeff Bezanson (JuliaHub Co-Founder and CTO, Julia Co-Creator) and Gabriel Baraldi (JuliaHub Compiler Engineer) presented New Ways to Compile Julia at JuliaCon earlier this year. Click here to read the blog post and watch their presentation.

JuliaCon 2024 Videos on YouTube: At least 220 (out of 330+) JuliaCon 2024 presentations have already been uploaded to YouTube, and more are being uploaded every week. Click here to watch.

JuMP-dev 2024 Videos on YouTube: JuMP-dev 2024 videos are also available on YouTube. Click here to watch. More information about JuMP-dev 2024 is available here.

JuliaHub Consulting Services: Would your organization benefit from a 100x increase in simulation speeds? JuliaSim might be the solution you need. Click here for more information about JuliaSim, and to contact us to learn how JuliaSim can help your business succeed. 

Free Compute on JuliaHub (20 hours): In addition to the features JuliaHub has always offered for free – Julia ecosystem search, package registration tools, a dedicated package server – the platform now also gives every user 20 hours of free compute. This allows people to seamlessly share Pluto notebooks and IDE projects with others and lets them get their feet wet with computing without having to open up their wallets. Click here to get started or check out Deep Datta’s introductory blog post, “JuliaHub Is a Free Platform to Start Your Technical Computing Journey”, which explains how and why to start using JuliaHub for cloud computing.

Converting from Proprietary Software to Julia: Are you looking to leverage Julia’s superior speed and ease of use, but limited due to legacy software and code? JuliaHub and our partners can help accelerate replacing your existing proprietary applications, improve performance, reduce development time, augment or replace existing systems and provide an extended trusted team to deliver Julia solutions. Leverage experienced resources from JuliaHub and our partners to get your team up and running quickly. For more information, please contact us.

Careers at JuliaHub: JuliaHub is a fast-growing tech company with fully remote employees in 20 countries on 6 continents. Click here to learn more about exciting careers and internships with JuliaHub.

Julia and JuliaHub in the News

  • InfoWorld: Julia Language Adds Lower-Overhead Memory Type
  • MarkTechPost: RxEnvironments.jl: A Reactive Programming Approach to Complex Agent-Environment Simulations in the Julia Language
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution: A Large-Scale in Silico Replication of Ecological and Evolutionary Studies
  • General Atomics: General Atomics Releases FUSE: A Powerful Tool to Fast-Track the Development of Fusion Power Plants
  • Analytics Insight: Top AI Programming Languages to Learn Today
  • Analytics Insight: The Most In-Demand Programming Languages for 2025
  • AIM: Top 30 AI Influeners to Follow on X (Twitter) in 2024
  • Analytics Insight: Will There Be a New Dominant Programming Language by 2030?
  • Analytics Insight: Rise & Fall of R Programming Language
  • Analytics Insight: Highest Paying Machine Learning Programs in 2024

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Julia is a high performance open source programming language that powers computationally demanding applications in modeling and simulation, drug development, design of multi-physical systems, electronic design automation, big data analytics, scientific machine learning and artificial intelligence. Julia solves the two language problem by combining the ease of use of Python and R with the speed of C++. Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and unlimited scalability with minimal effort. Julia has been downloaded by users at more than 10,000 companies and is used at more than 1,500 universities. Julia co-creators are the winners of the prestigious James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software and the Sidney Fernbach Award.