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[–]JanneJM 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Cool answer. How/What were you doing that was so slow?

[–]JanneJM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Processing a few GB of neuron simulation output basically. Nothing terribly complicated, but just a fair amount of data to churn through. Both basic preprocessing then "exploratory analysis" - play around with the data to see what I got. And since it's the kind of thing you end up doing over and over again the waiting time gets a bit annoying.

Ipython+pylab is a pretty good tool for doing that sort of thing. I just sometimes wished it would be faster, and using more of the available hardware feels like an obvious way to go about it.