nlcpy 1.0.0b1

NLCPy is a package for accelerating performance of Python scripts using NumPy on SX-Aurora TSUBASA.

NLCPy : NumPy script accelerator for SX-Aurora TSUBASA

NLCPy is a package for accelerating performance of Python scripts using NumPy on SX-Aurora TSUBASA. Python programmers can use this package on Linux/x86 of SX-Aurora TSUBASA. NLCPy API is designed based on NumPy one. The current version provides a subset of NumPy API.

Requirements

Before the installation, the following components are required to be installed on your x86 Node of SX-Aurora TSUBASA.

• NEC SDK

  • required NEC C/C++ compiler version: >= 3.0.4
  • required NLC version: >= 2.1.0

• Alternative VE Offloading (AVEO)

  • If you install NLCpy from wheel, the runtime packages of Alternative VE Offloading(AVEO) are required.

    # yum install veoffload-aveo veoffload-aveorun
    

  • If you install NLCpy from source, the development packages of Alternative VE Offloading(AVEO) are required.

    # yum install veoffload-aveo-devel veoffload-aveorun-devel
    

• Python

  • required version: >=3.6

Install from wheel

You can install NLCPy by executing either of following commands.

• Install from PyPI

  $ pip install nlcpy
  

• Install from your local computer

  1. Download the wheel package from GitHub.

  2. Put the wheel package to your any directory.

  3. Install the local wheel package via pip command.

     $ pip install <path_to_wheel>
     

The shared objects for Vector Engine, which are included in the wheel package, are compiled and tested by using NEC C/C++ Version 3.0.4.

Install from source (with building)

Before building source files, please install following packages.

$ pip install numpy cython wheel

And, entering these commands in the environment where gcc and ncc commands are available.

$ git clone https://github.com/SX-Aurora/nlcpy.git
$ cd nlcpy
$ pip install .

Documentation

• NLCPy User's Guide

License

The BSD-3-Clause license (see LICENSE file).

NLCPy is derived from NumPy, CuPy, and PyVEO (see LICENSE_DETAIL/LICENSE_DETAIL file).