For our first real application of parallelization, we will be solving a problem that is loosely based on a real problem that I had to solve during the course of my work. In this formulation, we will be importing an open dataset from the web that contains the airport code, latitude coordinates, and longitude coordinates for 13,429 US airports. Our task will be to find the average (mean) distance from every airport to every other airport. For example, if LAX, ALB, OLM, and JFK were the only extant airports, we would calculate the distances between JFK to OLM, JFK to ALB, JFK to LAX, OLM to ALB, OLM to LAX, and ALB to LAX, and take the arithmetic mean of these distances.
Why are we doing this? Well, besides the ...
