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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 1. Getting Started with Parallel Computing and Python

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • What is parallel computing?
  • The parallel computing memory architecture
  • Memory organization
  • Parallel programming models
  • How to design a parallel program
  • How to evaluate the performance of a parallel program
  • Introducing Python
  • Python in a parallel world
  • Introducing processes and threads
  • Start working with processes and Python
  • Start working with threads and Python
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