Understanding and Improving Conda’s performance

Lately, we have been responding to issues about Conda’s speed. We’re working on it and we wanted to explain a few of the facets that we’re looking at to solve the problem. TL;DR: make it faster Are you: Using conda-forge? Use conda-metachannel to reduce conda’s problem size Using bioconda? Use conda-metachannel to reduce conda’s problem size See https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/issues/13774 for more info […]

Intake released on Conda-Forge

Intake is a package for cataloging, finding and loading your data. It has been developed recently by Anaconda, Inc., and continues to gain new features….

Using Pip in a Conda Environment

Unfortunately, issues can arise when conda and pip are used together to create an environment, especially when the tools are used back-to-back multiple t…

Anaconda Distribution 5.3.0 Released

We’re excited to announce the release of Anaconda Distribution 5.3.0! Anaconda Distribution is the world’s most popular and easiest way to le…

Introducing Skein: Deploy Python on Apache YARN the Easy Way

By Jim Crist *This post is reprinted with permission from Jim Crist’s blog. The original post can be found here. In this post, I introduce Skein, a new tool and library for deploying applications on Apache YARN. I provide background on why this work was necessary, and demonstrate deploying a simple Python application on a YARN cluster. Introduction […]