Further high-performance computing techniques

There are many other high-performance computing techniques than those covered in this chapter. The IPython Cookbook contains many more details. Here is an overview of some of these other techniques:

MPI

The Message Passing Interface, or MPI, defines communication protocols for high-performance distributed systems. IPython.parallel has native support for MPI. Here are some other references:

Distributed computing

There are many frameworks for distributed computing and big data analysis in Python.

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