March 2025 Newsletter - Google Makes Julia Available on Colab

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Google Makes Julia Available on Colab: Google has made Julia available on Colab. Colab is a “free, cloud-hosted Jupyter Notebook environment …. It provides access free of charge to Google Cloud GPUs and TPUs, which is a game-changer for running AI models and simplifies project collaboration.” More information is available from JuliaHub, Google, VentureBeat and GitHub.

JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform: JuliaHub is doubling its investment in the pharmaceutical sector, leveraging JuliaHub’s new-and-improved CFR Part 11-compliant pharmaceutical platform. This latest release introduces advanced capabilities that further streamline workflows, improve compliance, and drive innovation across pharmacometrics, modeling, and analytics. With this update, JuliaHub continues to redefine efficiency and impact in pharmaceutical innovation, supporting organizations from preclinical research to regulatory submissions. This news has been covered by pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences and general business news outlets:

• Bio-Equip
• Bio-ITWorld
• BioPharmaDive
• BioSpace
• Biotech Now
• Boston Business Journal
• European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
• Life Science Newswire
• Pharma Industrial India
• Pharmaceutical Daily
• Pharmiweb

JuliaHub at a Conference Near You: JuliaHub will be participating in several conferences this year. Click the links below to register or learn more.

• ARPA-E: Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy Innovation Summit March 17-19 in Washington, DC
• PAGE: Population Approach Group Europe (PAGE) Conference June 4-6 in Thessaloniki, Greece
• EOOLT: Equation-Based Object-Oriented Modeling Languages and Tools June 13 in Bielefeld, Germany
• JuliaCon: JuliaCon 2025 July 21-26 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Modelica: International Modelica and Functional Mock-Up Interface Conference September 8-10 in Lucerne, Switzerland
• ACoP: American Conference on Pharmacometrics October 18-21 in Aurora, Colorado

Free Julia Online Webinars from JuliaHub: JuliaHub provides free one-hour Webinars led by JuliaHub staff and other experts. Space is limited and registration is required, so please sign up today!

Recent JuliaHub Webinars: JuliaHub provides free one-hour Webinars on topics of interest to Julia users. More than 85 past Webinars are available online. Click here to watch.

JuliaCon Local Comes to Paris: The Julia community in Europe is organizing JuliaCon Local Paris October 2-3, 2025. Click here for more information.

JuliaCon 2025: JuliaCon 2025 will take place July 21-26 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Click here for more information.

Annual Julia User & Developer Survey - Questionnaire Feedback: We are currently soliciting draft questionnaire feedback from the Julia community for the 2025 Julia User & Developer Survey. Please do NOT complete the survey at this time. Click here to request access to view the draft questionnaire. Comments can be added directly in the draft questionnaire and all comments will be reviewed and considered.

This Month in Julia World: This Month in Julia World is a monthly newsletter from Stefan Krastanov. Click here for more information.

Julia Dispatch Podcast: Julia Dispatch is a Julia podcast from Dr. Chris Rackauckas (JuliaHub VP of Modeling and Simulation) and Dr. Michael Tiemann. Click here to watch. Recent episodes include:

• Julia for Earth Sciences and Climate Modeling Panel Discussion
• JulGame with Kyle Conel
• Tidier.jl with Karandeep Singh
• Automatic Differentiation with Guillaume Dalle
• Pluto.jl with Panagiotis Georgakopoulos
• Static Compilation of Julia with Jeff Bezanson
• A GSoC Project in Symbolics.jl with Alexander Demin and Yassin ElBedwihy
• Julia Developer Experience with Tim Holy

Julia for Hypersurfaces: Akamai Technologies (145 Broadway) hosted Computing Arrangements of Hypersurfaces with Ada Wang (Harvard University) and Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) on Wednesday, March 12. Click here for more information.

Julia Special Interest Group Forms at University of Birmingham: JuliaSIG is a new Julia Special Interest Group at the University of Birmingham, led by Dr. Vincenzo Brachetta, School of Metallurgy and Materials. Click here for more information.

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

• VentureBeat: Google Launches Free Gemini-Powered Data Science Agent on its Colab Python Platform
• Bio-Equip: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• Bio-ITWorld: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• BioPharmaDive: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• BioSpace: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• Biotech Now: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• Boston Business Journal: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• Life Science Newswire: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• Pharma Industrial India: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• Pharmaceutical Daily: JuliaHub Doubling Investment in the Pharmaceutical Sector
• Pharmiweb: JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform
• KDNuggets: Data Science Showdown: Which Tools Will Gain Ground in 2025
• Analytics Insight: 2025: The Last Year of Python Dominance in AI
• Analytics Insight: Will Python Remain the Top Programming Language in 2025?
• Analytics Insight: Top 5 Trending Data Science Programming Languages
• Analytics India: How Rust, Python, Java, Make Developers Happy
• The Sequence: Does AI Need New Programming Languages?
• Fetch, Decode, Execute: Can Python Be Replaced in Machine Learning?
• Tech Economy: The Future of Programming Languages - Which Will Dominate in the Next Decade?

Julia Blog Posts

• Data Science Agent in Colab: The Future of Data Analysis with Gemini (Jane Fine, Mahi Kolla, Ilai Soloducho)
• Julia as a Language in Runtimes (Eric Johnson)
• Julia Now Available on Google Colab (Anshul Singhvi)
• JuliaHub Expands Investment in Next-Gen Pharma Modeling & Simulation (Jasmine Chokshi)
• CUDA.jl 5.6 and 5.7: Allocator Cache, and Asynchronous CUBLAS Wrappers (Tim Besard)
• A Next-Gen Approach to Modeling: What Makes ModelingToolkit.jl Stand Out? (Jasmine Chokshi)
• Bridging Julia and C++ with CxxWrap.jl (Sanjeeb Das Gupta)
• Julia’s Alternative to C-Code Generation for Model-Based Engineering (Jasmine Chokshi)
• Vendor-Neutral GPU Programming in Julia: Unlocking Portability with KernelAbstractions.jl (Sanjeeb Das Gupta)
• JuliaHub Doubles Investment in Advanced Pharmaceutical Modeling Platform (JuliaHub)
• This Month in Julia World (Stefan Krastanov)
• Tips Para el Lenguaje de Programación Julia (Enrique Gabriel Baquela)
• Links Sobre Machine Learning (Enrique Gabriel Baquela)
• Links Sobre el Lenguaje Julia (Enrique Gabriel Baquela)
• Como Usar Julia en Google Colab (Enrique Gabriel Baquela)
• Is Python or Julia the Best Choice for Time Series Forecasting?
• Optimizing Sprint Planning with Julia: A Linear Programming Approach with Gurobi (Karim Ould Aklouche)
• Julia vs. Python vs. R: Maximize Your Data Science Career ROI in 2025 (Michael Bass)
• Introducing OliveHighlighters: Refined Syntax Highlighting For Olive (Emma Boudreau)
• The New Toolips Starting App (Emma Boudreau)
• Putting The Finishing Touches On Olive Beta (Emma Boudreau)
• 5 Unfortunate Trade-Offs To Using Julia (Emma Boudreau)
• A Simplified Introduction To Toolips (Emma Boudreau)
• Significant Progress Everywhere (Emma Boudreau)
• The Em’s Computer Revival! (Emma Boudreau)
• Another Post About Progress (Emma Boudreau)
• NeoVim Config to Use as an IDE for Julia (Arash)
• Generate Prime Pairs for Goldbach's Conjecture (Jabari Zakiya)
• Makie v0.22.2
• So, You Want to Start a Julia Workgroup? (Hetarth Shah, George Datseris, Jacob S. Zelko)

Upcoming Julia and JuliaHub Events

• Washington, DC: Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy Innovation Summit with JuliaHub, March 17-19
• Online: Compilation of Julia Code for Deployment in Model-Based Engineering Workflows with Dr. Fredrik Bagge Carlson, JuliaHub Team Lead for Control Systems, March 18
• Online: Julia for Engineers Part 2: Modeling Steady-State and Dynamic Systems with David Dinh, JuliaHub Sales Engineer, March 26
• Online: Design and Deployment of Embedded Control Systems with Dr. Ranjan Anantharman, JuliaHub Sales Engineer, April 8
• Online: Generating FMUs from JuliaSim Models with Dr. Ranjan Anantharman, JuliaHub Sales Engineer, April 23
• Online: JuliaHub for Pharma: Fast, Interactive Development and Reproducible Workflows with Dr. Vijay Ivaturi, CEO of PumasAI and Phil Vernes, JuliaHub Sales Engineer, April 24
• Thessaloniki, Greece: Population Approach Group Europe with JuliaHub, June 4-6
• Bielefeld, Germany: Equation-Based Object-Oriented Modeling Languages and Tools Workshop with JuliaHub, June 13
• Pittsburgh, PA: JuliaCon 2025 with JuliaHub July 21-26
• Lucerne, Switzerland: International Modelica and Functional Mock-Up Interface Conference with JuliaHub September 8-10
• Paris, France: JuliaCon Local Paris October 2-3
• Aurora, CO: American Conference on Pharmacometrics with JuliaHub October 18-21

Recent Julia and JuliaHub Events

• Online: Vendor-Neutral GPU Programming in Julia with Dr. Tim Besard, JuliaHub Software Engineer, February 19
• Cambridge, MA: Big Data and Optics with Julia with Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN), February 25
• Online: Building Dynamic Models using Bidirectional Graphics and Code with David Dinh, JuliaHub Sales Engineer, Tuesday, March 4
• Online: PID Autotuning and Controls in JuliaSim with Dr. Ranjan Anatharman, JuliaHub Sales Engineer, March 11
• Cambridge, MA: Computing Arrangements of Hypersurfaces with Ada Wang and Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN), March 12

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• Learn more about JuliaHub, JuliaSim, JuliaSim Batteries, JuliaSim HVAC, JuliaSim Control, Pumas or CedarEDA 
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About JuliaHub and Julia

JuliaHub is a fast and easy-to-use code-to-cloud platform that accelerates the development and deployment of Julia programs. JuliaHub users include some of the most innovative companies in a range of industries including pharmaceuticals, automotive, energy, manufacturing, and semiconductor design and manufacture.

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.