.. module:: dpnp
DPNP is a NumPy-like library accelerated with SYCL on Intel devices. It provides Python interfaces for many NumPy functions, and includes a subset of methods of :class:`dpnp.ndarray`. Under the hood it is based on native C++ and oneMKL based kernels.
Being drop-in replacement for Numpy its usage is very similar to Numpy:
>>> import dpnp as np
The :class:`dpnp.ndarray` class is a compatible alternative of :class:`numpy.ndarray`.
>>> x = np.array([1, 2, 3])
x in the above example is an instance of :class:`dpnp.ndarray` that is created identically to NumPy's one.
The key difference of :class:`dpnp.ndarray` from :class:`numpy.ndarray` is
that the memory is allocated on Intel GPU when setting up DPNP_QUEUE_GPU=1 in the environment.
Most of the array manipulations are also done in the way similar to NumPy such as:
>>> s = np.sum(x)
Please see the :ref:`API Reference <dpnp_reference>` for the complete list of supported NumPy APIs along with their limitations.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 install reference/index dpnp_backend_api dpctl compute_follows_data