[SciPy-Dev] Release schedule

[Dave Hirschfeld]

David Cournapeau <cournape <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi Paul,
> Thanks for taking care of this release.
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> I will take care of the backport for expm since I am the one who 
reported the issue.
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> I have noticed some issues with numpy 1.9.1 + scipy 0.14.x using the 
MKL (hard crases in scipy.linalg.interpolative). I am still figuring out 
whether this is coming from a bug in our end or something genuine.David
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Hi David,
I'm curious whether or not you got to the bottom of the MKL crash, and 
what version of the MKL you're using?

I recently was experiencing random segfaults in the MKL interpolation 
routine with version 11.1.0.103 using cython wrappers on Win64, Python 
2.7.

Whilst I could reliably reproduce the segfault, it only happened at 
random times when under heavy load in a large simulation and I couldn't 
isolate a minimal test case.

Although I would normally consider that it's much more likely to be a 
problem with my cython wrappers upgrading to MKL 11.2 solved the problem 
and it has been solid as a rock ever since.

-Dave