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 PyOpenCL: Pythonic Access to OpenCL, with Arrays and Algorithms
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 PyOpenCL lets you access GPUs and other massively parallel compute
 devices from Python. It tries to offer computing goodness in the
 spirit of its sister project `PyCUDA <https://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda>`__: