Distributed Computing with Python

The mixed paradigm

Since most of the computers we buy today (2016) are multicore and often even both multiprocessor and multicore, any distributed application that we will write is likely to run on such systems. This brings us to being able to exploit both distributed computing and parallel computing techniques in our code. This mixed distributed-parallel paradigm is the de-facto standard nowadays when writing applications distributed over the network. As usual, reality is rarely binary.