import yt import time yt.enable_parallelism() # load data ds = yt.load("Data_000025") # start timer t1 = time.time() # heavy works p1 = yt.ProjectionPlot(ds, "x", "density") # end timer t2 = time.time() # show elapsed time if yt.is_root(): print("yt completed %f sec" % (t2-t1))