util

pyviennacl.util.backend_finish()

Block until any computation active on the compute backend is finished.

pyviennacl.util.from_ndarray(obj)

Convert a NumPy ndarray into a PyViennaCL object of appropriate dimensionality.

obj : array-like

new : {Vector, Matrix}

Vector if obj has 1 dimension; Matrix if 2.

AttributeError

If obj has less than 1 or more than 2 dimensions.