2011-11-20
Blog: HPC examples with Python
AstroPython reader Moritz writes:
While looking for good way to define a banded matrix in Python I stumbled on the following tutorial:
HPC Techreport: A brief introduction to Python
After the standard introduction to basic Python concepts, I quite like the way different HPC solutions are built up in the end (numpy, scipy, weave, Cython) to lead to one example implemented with very different approaches.
In the end ...
2009-12-27
Blog: MPI Cluster Programming with Python and Amazon EC2
Here is an interesting talk from PyCon 2008 by Peter Skomoroch (Juice Analytics). Has anyone tried EC2? In our local discussions it was said that EC2 is relatively expensive compared to other options, any comments? I'm working on a smallish problem that would benefit from having a couple hundred processors for interactive analysis. From the talk this can be done with ipython1 and ElasticWulf. Here is the ...
