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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Python is one of the leading open source platforms for data science and numerical computing. IPython and the associated Jupyter Notebook offer efficient interfaces to Python for data analysis and interactive visualization, and they constitute an ideal gateway to the platform. IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition contains many ready-to-use, focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis, from the latest IPython/Jupyter features to the most advanced tricks, to help you write better and faster code. You will apply these state-of-the-art methods to various real-world examples, illustrating topics in applied mathematics, scientific modeling, and machine learning. The first part of the book covers programming techniques: code quality and reproducibility, code optimization, high-performance computing through just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization CookbookSecond Edition
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. High-Performance Computing

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Using Python to write faster code

  • Accelerating pure Python code with Numba and Just-In-Time compilation

  • Accelerating array computations with NumExpr

  • Wrapping a C library in Python with ctypes

  • Accelerating Python code with Cython

  • Optimizing Cython code by writing less Python and more C

  • Releasing the GIL to take advantage of multi-core processors with Cython and OpenMP

  • Writing massively parallel code for NVIDIA graphics cards (GPUs) with CUDA

  • Distributing Python code across multiple cores with IPython

  • Interacting with asynchronous parallel tasks in IPython

  • Performing out-of-core computations on large arrays with Dask

  • Trying the Julia programming language in the Jupyter Notebook