Numba

Description

Numba is an open-source NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python. It generates optimized machine code from pure Python code using the LLVM compiler infrastructure.

User instructions

Numba is available via the modules system. To add it to your environment run:

$ module load numba/0.34.0

Note you will need to have a llvmlite module loaded.

Documentation is available at http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/dev/index.html

Source

https://github.com/numba/numba https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numba

License

BSD 2-clause “Simplified” license.

Admin notes

Both python2 and python3 versions were compiled from source.

ml purge
ml python/2.7.13 llvmlite
python setup.py build_ext --inplace
mkdir -p /common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/2.7/numba/numba-0.34.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages
PYTHONPATH=/common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/2.7/numba/numba-0.34.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH python setup.py install --prefix=/common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/2.7/numba/numba-0.34.0

ml purge
ml python llvmlite
python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace
mkdir -p /common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/3.5/numba/numba-0.34.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages
PYTHONPATH=/common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/3.5/numba/numba-0.34.0/lib/python3.5/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH python3 setup.py install --prefix=/common/debian/9.1/PythonPackages/python/3.5/numba/numba-0.34.0