Make python use more resources in calculations

Question

Hi I'm trying to do some matrix calculations using python. The problem is there seems to be a limit of how much CPU will the process consume (about 13% of my Core i7).

Is there a way I can make it use more resources?

Answer 1

As people in the comments pointed out, you're running only on one of your 8 (4 physical, 4 virtual) cores.

If you aren't doing this for a programming exercise but instead you're really interested in numerical programming or data analysis in python, you might want to take a close look at numpy. That package provides fast array/vector/matrix types and operations them, and (supposedly) can do multi threaded dot products (see multithreaded blas in python/numpy ).