Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785289583
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Giancarlo Zaccone Giancarlo Zaccone
Author Profile Icon Giancarlo Zaccone
Giancarlo Zaccone
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

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

Scientific computing with SCOOP


Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python (SCOOP) is a Python module to distribute concurrent tasks (called Futures) on heterogeneous computational nodes. Its architecture is based on the ØMQ package, which provides a way to manage Futures between the distributed systems. The main application of SCOOP resides in scientific computing that requires the execution of many distributed tasks using all the computational resources available.

To distribute its futures, SCOOP uses a variation of the broker patterns:

The SCOOP architecture

The central element of the communication system is the broker that interacts with all the independent workers to dispatch messages between them. The Futures are created in the worker elements instead of the central node (the broker) with a centralized serialization procedure. This makes the topology architecture more reliable and makes performance better. In fact, the broker's main workload consists of networking and interprocess I/O...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image