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Mastering IPython 4.0

By : Thomas Bitterman, Dipanjan Deb
Book Image

Mastering IPython 4.0

By: Thomas Bitterman, Dipanjan Deb

Overview of this book

IPython is an interactive computational environment in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots, and rich media. This book will get IPython developers up to date with the latest advancements in IPython and dive deep into interactive computing with IPython. This an advanced guide on interactive and parallel computing with IPython will explore advanced visualizations and high-performance computing with IPython in detail. You will quickly brush up your knowledge of IPython kernels and wrapper kernels, then we'?ll move to advanced concepts such as testing, Sphinx, JS events, interactive work, and the ZMQ cluster. The book will cover topics such as IPython Console Lexer, advanced configuration, and third-party tools. By the end of this book, you will be able to use IPython for interactive and parallel computing in a high-performance computing environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering IPython 4.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Works Well with Others – IPython and Third-Party Tools
Index

Using multiple processors


Given the limitations of threading for CPU-bound code, perhaps a solution can be found using multiple processors. The problem with CPU-bound algorithms and threading was that there was an implicitly-shared resource: the CPU. With multiple processors this limitation can be eased – each function call can have its own CPU, up to the physical number of CPUs. Each CPU would work independently and in parallel rather than being a bottleneck. We will examine the tools that IPython provides for working with multiple processors in the following sections.