Optimization Benchmarks

Collection of performance benchmarks used to present optimizations implemented for Intel(R) Distribution for Python*

Environment Setup

To install Python environments from Intel channel along with pip-installed packages

• python3 create_python_envs.py

Run tests

• python3 run_tests.py

Run benchmarks

umath

• To run python benchmarks: python numpy/umath/umath_mem_bench.py
• To compile and run native benchmarks (requires icc): make -C numpy/umath

Random number generation

• To run python benchmarks: python numpy/random/rng.py
• To compile and run native benchmarks (requires icc): make -C numpy/random

See also

"Accelerating Scientific Python with Intel Optimizations" by Oleksandr Pavlyk, Denis Nagorny, Andres Guzman-Ballen, Anton Malakhov, Hai Liu, Ehsan Totoni, Todd A. Anderson, Sergey Maidanov. Proceedings of the 16th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2017), July 10 - July 16, Austin, Texas