Intel Python Distribution

Introduction

Intel Python Distribution contains scipy and numpy packages built using the Intel Math Kernel Libraries (MKL) which are meant to be very efficient and automatically parallelise what they can, so your python code should run faster on a machine with lots of core (eg mensa).

Documentation

The start page for documentation is https://software.intel.com/en-us/python-distribution

Initialisation

C/tcsh:

setenv PATH /usr/local/intel/intelpython27/bin:${PATH}

or
bash:

export PATH=/usr/local/intel/intelpython27/bin:${PATH}

Version

Beta release of Python 2.7.11

Testing

run initialisation then do

which python

which should give you the answer above.

Usage

Make

 /local/intel/intelpython27/bin
Related Software

Code using Intel python can be profiled using the the Vtune profiling tool.


Rhys Morris


Last modified: Friday, 15 July 2016