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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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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

Introduction

With the sequential and parallel execution model, there is a third model, called the asynchronous model, that is of fundamental importance to us along with the concept of event programming. The execution model of asynchronous activities can be implemented using a single stream of main control, both in uniprocessor systems and multiprocessor systems.

In the asynchronous model of a concurrent execution, various tasks intersect with the timeline, and all of this happens under the action of a single flow of control (single-threaded). The execution of a task can be suspended and then resumed, but this alternates the time of other tasks. The following figure expresses this concept in a clear manner:

Introduction

Asynchronous programming model

As you can see, the tasks (each with a different color) are interleaved with one another, but they are in a single thread of control; this implies that when one task is in execution, the other tasks are not. A key difference between the multithreaded programming...

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