#IT-03-27 Python in High Performance Computing
About Course
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)Description
Speed up Python programs using optimisation and parallelisation techniques
The Python programming language is popular in scientific computing because of the benefits it offers for fast code development. The performance of pure Python programs is often suboptimal, but there are ways to make them faster and more efficient.
On this course, you’ll find out how to identify performance bottlenecks, perform numerical computations efficiently, and extend Python with compiled code. You’ll learn various ways to optimise and parallelise Python programs, particularly in the context of scientific and high performance computing.
What topics will you cover?
- Performance challenges of Python programming language
- Performance analysis of Python programs
- Efficient numerical calculations with NumPy
- Using compiled code with Python
- Interfacing Python to libraries written in other programming languages
- Parallel programming with Python
Who will you learn with?
Expert on high-performance computing working at CSC.fi
Senior application scientist at the Finnish national supercomputing center CSC – IT Center for Science.
Who developed the course?
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels.
What Will I Learn?
- Improve performance of Python programs
- Apply parallelisation techniques using Python
- Calculate numerical expressions efficiently in Python
- Identify performance bottlenecks in Python programs
- Develop higher performance extensions to Python
Topics for this course
Welcome to the course
Welcome to Python in High Performance Computing00:01:37
Prerequisities and structure of the course
Setting up the programming environment
Performance challenges in Python
Performance analysis
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Jussi Enkovaara is so interesting, I am deeply in love with this lecturer, the course is very interesting.
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