numpy on multicore hardware

What's the state of the art with regards to getting numpy to use mutliple cores (on Intel hardware) for things like inner and outer vector products, vector-matrix multiplications etc?

I am happy to rebuild numpy if necessary, but at this point I am looking at ways to speed things up without changing my code.

For reference, my show_config() is as follows, and I've never observed numpy to use more than one core:

atlas_threads_info:
    libraries = ['lapack', 'ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/lib']
    language = f77
    include_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/include']

blas_opt_info:
    libraries = ['ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/lib']
    define_macros = [('ATLAS_INFO', '"\\"3.9.16\\""')]
    language = c
    include_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/include']

atlas_blas_threads_info:
    libraries = ['ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/lib']
    language = c
    include_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/include']

lapack_opt_info:
    libraries = ['lapack', 'ptf77blas', 'ptcblas', 'atlas']
    library_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/lib']
    define_macros = [('ATLAS_INFO', '"\\"3.9.16\\""')]
    language = f77
    include_dirs = ['/usr/local/atlas-3.9.16/include']

lapack_mkl_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

blas_mkl_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE

mkl_info:
  NOT AVAILABLE