[Swift-devel] CCA-11 Swift Poster Visitor's Questions

[Michael Wilde]

That looks good for a talk, Dan. The advantage there is that the speaker can point out the topics and describe the code.

The challenge on a poster is that no one reads a lot of fine print code. So taking code similar to whats on your talk slides, and "magnifying" the main statements to a much larger font, may accomplish the desired effect.

It would be good to continue to hone a set of talks, posters, and the online material so that we get the message across in a way that shows the strengths of Swift. Given enough space, we can show the inevitably messy details of programming real cases, while keeping the details in perspective.

All that said, I want to thank Ketan and Justin immensely for putting the whole CCA11 effort together - abstract, cloud runs, plots, poster, and talk - with very little help from me and in a very short timeframe along with many competing responsibilities.  That was very nice work!!!

- Mike


----- Original Message -----
> In the Montage presentation I have, I include the code (from Jon) that
> runs a simple version of Montage, and one of the wrapper examples, as
> follows. This seems to me to be sufficiently complete for a talk. I
> use two slides, one for the code, and one for the wrapper.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> import {…}
> 
> MosaicData header <"header.hdr">;
> Table images_tbl <"images.tbl">;
> Image mosaic <"final/mosaic.fits">;
> Image projected_images[];
> 
> Image raw_image_files[] <filesys_mapper; location = "raw_dir", suffix
> = ".fits">;
> projected_images = mProjectBatch( raw_image_files, header );
> images_tbl = mImgtbl( projected_images );
> mosaic = mAdd( projected_images, images_tbl, header );
> 
> 
> ( Image proj_imgs[] ) mProjectBatch( Image raw_imgs[], MosaicData hdr
> )
> {
> foreach img, i in raw_imgs
> {
> Image proj_img <regexp_mapper; source = @img, match = ".*\\/(.*)",
> transform = "proj_dir/proj_\\1">;
> proj_img = mProject( img, hdr );
> proj_imgs[ i ] = proj_img;
> }
> }
> 
> app ( Image proj_img ) mProject( Image raw_img, MosaicData hdr )
> {
> mProject "-X" @raw_img @proj_img @hdr;
> }
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> > That seems a valid criticism that we should address. In this case
> > the entire script is fairly compact, so we could put the whole
> > script on the poster and just enlarge the highlights shown here (and
> > the mappings as well if desired).
> >
> > We should move these to a new Case Studies section of the Swift web
> > that we have long proposed.
> >
> > The format can be a more visually interesting version of the
> > annotated script walkthroughs that we put in the Parco paper. (By
> > the way, at least one NCAR researcher was highly complementary of
> > the Parco paper and said that it really clarified Swift for her).
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >>> -- The simplicity of script-code seems deceptive!?!
> >>
> >> If that's refering to the script in the lower left corner, I guess
> >> it
> >> omits a bunch of stuff. Whether that's "deceptive" is rather
> >> subjective -
> >> for example, its ommitting the mappings (which at one point were a
> >> big
> >> part of the swift story). Now its probably ok to cough politely and
> >> get
> >> away with that for str_roots, but the code as given seems to assign
> >> data_files[0] many times without it being clear from the fragment
> >> that
> >> data_files[0] is going to be different each time round (presumably
> >> it
> >> is?). Mapping often seems to be a user-effort-sink, so discarding
> >> them
> >> and
> >> then saying "easy!" is kinda cheeky...
> >>
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> > Michael Wilde
> > Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > Argonne National Laboratory
> >
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> Daniel S. Katz
> University of Chicago
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-- 
Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory