I've used Celery extensively for the past year. But I'm not sure I can whip up a presentation by Wednesday..... What kind of presentation detail are folks looking for?
John On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:41 AM, James Cooper wrote: > 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/
