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Distributed Computing with Python
by
Francesco Pierfederici
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
3h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Distributed Computing with Python
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Distributed Computing with Python
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. An Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing
Parallel computing
Distributed computing
Shared memory versus distributed memory
Amdahl's law
The mixed paradigm
Summary
2. Asynchronous Programming
Coroutines
An asynchronous example
Summary
3. Parallelism in Python
Multiple threads
Multiple processes
Multiprocess queues
Closing thoughts ...
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