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Mastering IPython 4.0

By : Thomas Bitterman, Dipanjan Deb
Book Image

Mastering IPython 4.0

By: Thomas Bitterman, Dipanjan Deb

Overview of this book

IPython is an interactive computational environment in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots, and rich media. This book will get IPython developers up to date with the latest advancements in IPython and dive deep into interactive computing with IPython. This an advanced guide on interactive and parallel computing with IPython will explore advanced visualizations and high-performance computing with IPython in detail. You will quickly brush up your knowledge of IPython kernels and wrapper kernels, then we'?ll move to advanced concepts such as testing, Sphinx, JS events, interactive work, and the ZMQ cluster. The book will cover topics such as IPython Console Lexer, advanced configuration, and third-party tools. By the end of this book, you will be able to use IPython for interactive and parallel computing in a high-performance computing environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering IPython 4.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Works Well with Others – IPython and Third-Party Tools
Index

Chapter 1. Using IPython for HPC

In this chapter, we are going to look at why IPython should be considered a viable tool for building high-performance and parallel systems.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • The need for speed

  • Fortran as a solution

  • Choosing between IPython and Fortran

  • An example case—the Fast Fourier Transform

  • High-performance computing and the cloud

  • Going parallel