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With Photon Vectorized Query Engine enabled, these instances dramatically outperformed r5a.2xlarge instances featuring AMD EPYC™ processors on decision support workloads and delivered better value.

Intel has invested in optimizing performance of Python itself, with the Intel® Distribution for Python, and has optimized key data science libraries used with scikit-learn, such as XGBoost, NumPy, and SciPy. This article gives more information on installing and using these extensions.