In this video from the ECSS Symposium, Abe Stern from NVIDIA presents: CUDA-Python and RAPIDS for blazing fast scientific computing. We will introduce Numba and RAPIDS for GPU programming in Python.

Apparently they are trying to introduce Python for scientific computing, they are using Windows (on a typical, locked-down environment).

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