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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Parallel Programming Cookbook Master efficient parallel programming to build powerful applications using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289583
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giancarlo Zaccone Giancarlo Zaccone
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Parallel Computing and Python 2. Thread-based Parallelism FREE CHAPTER 3. Process-based Parallelism 4. Asynchronous Programming 5. Distributed Python 6. GPU Programming with Python Index

Chapter 3. Process-based Parallelism

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Using the multiprocessing Python module
  • How to spawn a process
  • How to name a process
  • How to run a process in the background
  • How to kill a process
  • How to use a process in a subclass
  • How to exchange objects between processes
  • Using a queue to exchange objects
  • Using pipes to exchange objects
  • How to synchronize processes
  • How to manage a state between processes
  • How to use a process pool
  • Using the mpi4py Python module
  • Point-to-point communication
  • Avoiding deadlock problems
  • Collective communication using broadcast
  • Collective communication using a scatter function
  • Collective communication using a gather function
  • Collective communication using AlltoAll
  • Reduction operation
  • How to optimize the communication
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