I have emailed this list in the past explaining what is driving my open source efforts now. Here is a blog-post that may help some of you understand at little bit of the history of Blaze, DyND Numba, and other related developments as they relate to scaling up and scaling out array-computing in Python. http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2016/03/anaconda-and-hadoop-story-of-... This post and these projects do not have anything to do with the future of the NumPy and/or SciPy projects which are now in great hands guiding their community-driven development. The post is however, a discussion of additional projects that will hopefully benefit some of you as well, and for which your feedback and assistance is welcome. Best, -Travis -- *Travis Oliphant, PhD* *Co-founder and CEO* @teoliphant 512-222-5440 http://www.continuum.io