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Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy

You're reading from   Mastering Numerical Computing with NumPy Master scientific computing and perform complex operations with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788993357
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Working with NumPy Arrays FREE CHAPTER 2. Linear Algebra with NumPy 3. Exploratory Data Analysis of Boston Housing Data with NumPy Statistics 4. Predicting Housing Prices Using Linear Regression 5. Clustering Clients of a Wholesale Distributor Using NumPy 6. NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, and Scikit-Learn 7. Advanced Numpy 8. Overview of High-Performance Numerical Computing Libraries 9. Performance Benchmarks 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Of course, the t2.micro instance is fairly weak and you should know more about how Amazon provides this computing power for EC2 instances. You can read more about them at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/.

If you use more powerful machines with a higher number of cores, the performance difference will be more visible between different configurations.

When it comes to results, it's no surprise that the default installation of BLAS and LAPACK gave us the baseline performance and optimized versions, such as OpenBLAS, ATLAS, and Intel MKL, gave better performance.

As you have noted, you haven't changed a single line of code in your Python script and by just linking your NumPy library against different accelerators, you had huge performance gains.

If you will dig deeper into these low-level libraries to understand what are the specific routines and functions...

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