Hi there, I volunteered to organize some speakers for next week's meeting. The topic is parallel computing -- i.e. how to get a bunch of machines/cores to do useful work at the same time without tearing your hair out.
Anyone have experience with any of the following and would like to present? - Celery - MapReduce (using Hadoop / disco / mincemeat / etc) - PiCloud - Message queues (using STOMP or AMQP) (brokers might include RabbitMQ, HornetQ, ActiveMQ) - Amazon SQS/SNS - Redis (not a traditional message queue, but has atomic list primitives that provide queueing semantics) A very good list of options is available here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing _____ I've used SQS and Redis with Python on some production systems and could talk about that a bit. PiCloud might be worth looking at too (it's commercial, but has a pretty amazing instant gratification "wow" factor). A gentleman at last month's meeting volunteered to present on Celery, which would be good - that seems to be the hot project in this area now. Please email me or the list if you're interested in presenting! cheers -- James -- James Cooper Principal Consultant - Bitmechanic LLC http://www.bitmechanic.com/
