Episode 253: 247 RR Parallella with Ray Hightower

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 253: 247 RR Parallella with Ray Hightower
• Website: Ruby Rogues
• Feed URL: https://feeds.feedwrench.com/RubyRogues.rss
• Duration: 01:02:24
• Published: 2016-02-17 15:00

02:02 - Ray Hightower Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• WisdomGroup
• ChicagoRuby
• WindyCityRails
• WindyCityThings

03:22 - Parallella

• Raspberry Pi

05:39 - Web Developers and The Hardware World

12:38 - Does a hardware background inform software?

18:42 - Learning and Playing

• Verilog

22:22 - Concurrency and Parallelism

• The Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer on the Planet by Ray Hightower at Madison+ Ruby 2015
• github.com/parallella/parallella-examples

32:48 - Getting Started with Parallella

• Parallella Quick Start Guide (with gotchas)
• COIK = Clear Only If Known
• parallella.org/forums

41:02 - Use Cases

42:38 - IoT (Internet of Things)

• HealthKit
• HomeKit
• WatchKit

Picks

Refactoring Ruby with Monads (Coraline)
Ruby Rogues Episode #120: Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart (Chuck)
Learning to play the piano (Jessica)
Mogo Portable Seat (Chuck)
Rob Pike: Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (Ray)
Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster (Ray)

Special Guest: Ray Hightower.