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No GPU required — all examples run on CPU with NumPy.

## Benchmarks

Reference runtimes for the 3D scaling benchmark in [`benchmarks/benchmark.py`](../benchmarks/README.md). Values are total elapsed seconds for a single default run (3D initial-value problem, heterogeneous absorbing medium, 1000 timesteps, averaged over 3 repeats).

| Backend | OS | Accelerator | 64³ | 128³ | 256³ | Hardware |
|---------|-----------------------|-------------------|-----|------|------|----------|
| python | Linux | CPU | — | — | — | — |
| python | Linux | NVIDIA GPU | — | — | — | — |
| python | macOS (Apple Silicon) | CPU | 81 | — | — | Apple M1, 8 GB |
| python | Windows | CPU | — | — | — | — |
| python | Windows | NVIDIA GPU | — | — | — | — |
| cpp | Linux | CPU (OMP) | — | — | — | — |
| cpp | Linux | NVIDIA GPU (CUDA) | — | — | — | — |
| cpp | macOS (Apple Silicon) | CPU (OMP) | — | — | — | — |
| cpp | Windows | CPU (OMP) | — | — | — | — |
| cpp | Windows | NVIDIA GPU (CUDA) | — | — | — | — |

Contributions welcome — open a PR filling a row with your k-wave-python version, and (for `cpp` backend) `BINARY_VERSION`. See [`benchmarks/README.md`](../benchmarks/README.md) for the reproducer command.

## Installation

Using [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) (recommended):
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