> a) Can you guys tell me briefly about the kind of problems you are > > tackling with numpy and scipy? > > > Electromagnetic problems: eigenvalues finding, linear systems, > optimizations... > > b) Have you ever felt that numpy/scipy was slow and had to switch to > > C/C++/Fortran? > > > > I come from that world, and python gives me the programming speed I needed > with a more-than-reasonable executing speed. I mainly use python/numpy/scipy > as a better Matlab, which is platform independent and free, i.e. an > interface to numerical libraries like blas, lapack, fftw, umfpack, arpack > and so on (which are mainly written in Fortran/C). > > > c) Do you use any form of parallel processing? Multicores? SMPs? > > Clusters? If yes how did u utilize them? > > > I use MPI (mpi4py) on a shared memory multiprocessor SGI Altix. >
Lorenzo.
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