[IPython-user] Ipython 1 parallel execution on a multicore machine

[Ville M. Vainio]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Markus Weimer <markus.weimer@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question regarding ipython1's parallel execution. I have not used
> it yet, but it seems like an easy way to parallelize existing python code.
> In my case, I would like to parallelize onto different CPU cores inside the
> same machine. As my datasets are rather big, I would prefer if the data was
> not copied to be operated on by a different core. Is IPython capable of
> handling this?

I don't know whether ip1 supports passing objects through shared
memory (my guess is, it isn't), but if you used shared memory, of
course you can pass handles to shared memory segments.

Google finds stuff like:

http://poshmodule.sourceforge.net/
mmap module
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-March/313326.html
...

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