Error using atlas from numpy

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While trying to use the atlas library from numpy on a machine I ran into the following error described here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14236717/threading-error-using-atlas-in-numpy-under-linux

The issue seems to be that the binary for atlas was compiled on a machine with more cores than my current machine has. This seems to suggest that unless I have the same or more cores than the machine the binary was built on, I won't be able to use the pre-compiled version of atlas with Ubuntu.

For now I switched to using libblas and lapack by choosing them over the atlas versions of the libraries in alternatives.

'sudo update-alternatives --all'