On Jan 12, 11:52 am, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anybody tried to runparallelpythonapplications? > > It appears that if your application is computation-bound using 'thread' > > or 'threading' modules will not get you any speedup. That is because > >pythoninterpreter uses GIL(Global Interpreter Lock) for internal > > bookkeeping. The later allows only onepythonbyte-code instruction to > > be executed at a time even if you have a multiprocessor computer. > > To overcome this limitation, I've created ppsmp module: > > http://www.parallelpython.com > > It provides an easy way to runparallelpythonapplications on smp > > computers. > > I would appreciate any comments/suggestions regarding it. > > Thank you! > > Looks interesting, but is there any way to use this for a cluster of > machines over a network (not smp)?
There are 2 major updates regarding Parallel Python: http:// www.parallelpython.com 1) Now (since version 1.2) parallel python software could be used for cluster-wide parallelization (or even Internet-wide). It's also renamed accordingly: pp (module is backward compatible with ppsmp) 2) Parallel Python became open source (under BSD license): http:// www.parallelpython.com/content/view/18/32/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
