Combining Web Technologies With Numerical Computing

Jacob Mattingley, Ubalo

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

While working on my PhD I decided to offer my optimization research software, CVXGEN, as a web service. Rather than require users to download and maintain a complicated software stack just to try CVXGEN, I opted to provide it as an application available in the web browser. This means a lot more people use my software, and it's much easier for me to maintain it and support the community. In this talk I'll discuss how to combine very different aspects of software development, and talk about the benefits of using modern technologies alongside serious research. I'll give demos and talk about some of the pitfalls along the way.