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Python in High-Performance Computing Python in High-Performance Computing Martin Sandve Alnæs, Are Magnus Bruaset, Xing Cai, Hans Petter Langtangen, Kent-Andre Mardal, Halvard Moe, Ola Skavhaug, Åsmund Ødegård Simula Research Laboratory c 2006 Topics Crash Course in Python 4 Scientific Computing with Python 17 Visualization in with Python 35 Performance Issues – Tips and Tricks 58 Parallel Computing via Python 64 Extend Your Favorite Library with Python 82 Various Packages for Scientific Computing 121 2 Why Scientific Computing with Python The old days Today FORTRAN C C++ Perl Python Java • Languages have moved from speed and efficiency to flexibility and convenience • Python is a powerful yet easy to use language • Python has a rich set of libraries and extensions • Python is an ideal glue between your applications • Using wrapping techniques, your legacy code may get another life • Python is suitable for computational steering • In this tutorial we also do number crunching with Python! 3 Crash Course in Python We begin with a crash course in Python. 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