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Python accelerators for high-performance computing

Author: Ami Marowka

Published in: The Journal of Supercomputing | Issue 4/2018

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Python became the preferred language for teaching in academia, and it is one of the most popular programming languages for scientific computing. This wide popularity occurs despite the weak performance of the language. This weakness is the motivation that drives the efforts devoted by the Python community to improve the performance of the language. In this article, we are following these efforts while we focus on one specific promised solution that aims to provide high-performance and performance portability for Python applications.

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Title: Python accelerators for high-performance computing
Author: Ami Marowka
Publication date: 12-12-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: The Journal of Supercomputing / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0920-8542
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0484
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-017-2213-5

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