Future: Simple Async, Parallel & Distributed Processing in R - What's Next?

Future is a minimal and unifying framework for asynchronous, parallel, and distributed computing in R.

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Future: Simple Async, Parallel & Distributed Processing in R - What's Next?

January 30, 2020
Future is a minimal and unifying framework for asynchronous, parallel, and distributed computing in R. It is designed for robustness, consistency, scalability, extendability, and adoptability - all in the spirit of "developer writes code once, user runs it anywhere". It is being used in production for high-performance computing and asynchronous UX, among other things. In this talk, I will discuss common feature requests, recent progress we have made, and what is the pipeline.

About the speaker

Henrik Bengtsson
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MSc in Computer Science and PhD in Mathematical Statistics. Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco. Applied computational and statistical research in Genomics and Bioinformatics.