[ANN] Summer School "Advanced Scientific Programming in Python" in Reading, UK, September 5—11, 2016

2016-04-07 Thread Tiziano Zito
Advanced Scientific Programming in Python = a Summer School by the G-Node, and the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, UK Scientists spend more and more time wri

ANN: numexpr 2.5.2 released

2016-04-07 Thread Francesc Alted
= Announcing Numexpr 2.5.2 = Numexpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it, expressions that operate on arrays (like "3*a+4*b") are accelerated and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python. It wears multi-thr

ANN: python-blosc 1.3.1

2016-04-07 Thread Francesc Alted
= Announcing python-blosc 1.3.1 = What is new? This is an important release in terms of stability. Now, the -O1 flag for compiling the included C-Blosc sources on Linux. This represents slower performance, but fixes the nasty

ANN: bcolz 1.0.0 (final) released

2016-04-07 Thread Francesc Alted
= Announcing bcolz 1.0.0 final = What's new == Yeah, 1.0.0 is finally here. We are not introducing any exciting new feature (just some optimizations and bug fixes), but bcolz is already 6 years old and it implements most of the capa