Re: [Numpy-discussion] Matlab vs. Python (Was: Re: [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)) (Sturla Molden)

2010-08-15 Thread Ioan-Alexandru Lazar
Hi everyone, I've been pretty happy with how Spider went along when I tried it. I use Emacs but I think Spyder is perfectly usable for someone used to Matlab. A few HPC-centric of my reasons (I've shamelessly copy-pasted this because I'm lazy right now): 1. Python is an expressive, full-fledged,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] UMFPACK interface is unexpectedly slow

2010-07-21 Thread Ioan-Alexandru Lazar
s not in NumPy or my code, and it would be wiser to bring this up in Ubuntu's trackpad. Thanks for your patience, Alexandru On Thu, July 22, 2010 4:10 am, Ioan-Alexandru Lazar wrote: > Hello everyone, > > First of all, let me apologize for my earlier message; I made the mist

[Numpy-discussion] UMFPACK interface is unexpectedly slow

2010-07-21 Thread Ioan-Alexandru Lazar
Hello everyone, First of all, let me apologize for my earlier message; I made the mistake of trying to indent my code using SquirrelMail's horrible interface -- and pressing Tab and Space resulted in sending my (incomplete) e-mail to the list. Cursed be Opera's keyboard shortcuts now :-). I'm cur

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2010-07-21 Thread Ioan-Alexandru Lazar
Hello everyone, I'm currently planning to use a Python-based infrastructure for our HPC project. I've previously used NumPy and SciPy for basic scientific computing tasks, but performance hasn't been quite an issue for me until now. At the moment I'm not too sure as to what to do next though, and