- Improves the speed of common libraries and algorithms, especially data analytics.
- New Optimizations in SciPy and NumPy packages provide speedups for scikit-learn
- Leverages Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel DAAL)
- For some scikit-learn algorithms, performance increase by 140x!
Jeff does an install with the Intel Distribution and then runs a simple benchmark on his machine to see how much of a performance improvement we see by using Intel Thead Building Blocks.