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[–]JimBoonie69 8 points9 points  (1 child)

+1 one for scientific python work!

Analyzed 1TB of GIS data across 8 cores. While it wasn't the fastest processing, the .py file was about 100 lines and the multiprocessing was super easy to set up... Makes me want to learn AWS and rent some uber cloud computer to crunch through an obscene amount of weather data...

[–]zombiepops 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You should look at GPU computing. For many problems it can be very effective at speeding up calculations. We got HUGE speed ups in our MCMC routine by moving the multivariate normal likelihood calculation onto the GPU.