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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

By : Giancarlo Zaccone

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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

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By: Giancarlo Zaccone

Overview of this book

This book will teach you parallel programming techniques using examples in Python and will help you explore the many ways in which you can write code that allows more than one process to happen at once. Starting with introducing you to the world of parallel computing, it moves on to cover the fundamentals in Python. This is followed by exploring the thread-based parallelism model using the Python threading module by synchronizing threads and using locks, mutex, semaphores queues, GIL, and the thread pool. Next you will be taught about process-based parallelism where you will synchronize processes using message passing along with learning about the performance of MPI Python Modules. You will then go on to learn the asynchronous parallel programming model using the Python asyncio module along with handling exceptions. Moving on, you will discover distributed computing with Python, and learn how to install a broker, use Celery Python Module, and create a worker. You will understand anche Pycsp, the Scoop framework, and disk modules in Python. Further on, you will learnGPU programming withPython using the PyCUDA module along with evaluating performance limitations.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

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1. Getting Started with Parallel Computing and Python

1. Getting Started with Parallel Computing and Python

Introduction

The parallel computing memory architecture

Memory organization

Parallel programming models

How to design a parallel program

How to evaluate the performance of a parallel program

Introducing Python

Python in a parallel world

Introducing processes and threads

Start working with processes in Python

Start working with threads in Python

2. Thread-based Parallelism

2. Thread-based Parallelism

Introduction

Using the Python threading module

How to define a thread

How to determine the current thread

How to use a thread in a subclass

Thread synchronization with Lock and RLock

Thread synchronization with RLock

Thread synchronization with semaphores

Thread synchronization with a condition

Thread synchronization with an event

Using the with statement

Thread communication using a queue

Evaluating the performance of multithread applications

3. Process-based Parallelism

3. Process-based Parallelism

Introduction

How to spawn a process

How to name a process

How to run a process in the background

How to kill a process

How to use a process in a subclass

How to exchange objects between processes

How to synchronize processes

How to manage a state between processes

How to use a process pool

Using the mpi4py Python module

Point-to-point communication

Avoiding deadlock problems

Collective communication using broadcast

Collective communication using scatter

Collective communication using gather

Collective communication using Alltoall

The reduction operation

How to optimize communication

4. Asynchronous Programming

4. Asynchronous Programming

Introduction

Using the concurrent.futures Python modules

Event loop management with Asyncio

Handling coroutines with Asyncio

Task manipulation with Asyncio

Dealing with Asyncio and Futures

5. Distributed Python

5. Distributed Python

Introduction

Using Celery to distribute tasks

How to create a task with Celery

Scientific computing with SCOOP

Handling map functions with SCOOP

Remote Method Invocation with Pyro4

Chaining objects with Pyro4

Developing a client-server application with Pyro4

Communicating sequential processes with PyCSP

Using MapReduce with Disco

A remote procedure call with RPyC

6. GPU Programming with Python

6. GPU Programming with Python

Introduction

Using the PyCUDA module

How to build a PyCUDA application

Understanding the PyCUDA memory model with matrix manipulation

Kernel invocations with GPUArray

Evaluating element-wise expressions with PyCUDA

The MapReduce operation with PyCUDA

GPU programming with NumbaPro

Using GPU-accelerated libraries with NumbaPro

Using the PyOpenCL module

How to build a PyOpenCL application

Evaluating element-wise expressions with PyOpenCl

Testing your GPU application with PyOpenCL

Index

Index

How to define a thread

The simplest way to use a thread is to instantiate it with a target function and then call the start() method to let it begin its work. The Python module threading has the Thread() method that is used to run processes and functions in a different thread:

class threading.Thread(group=None,
                       target=None,
                       name=None,
                       args=(),
                       kwargs={})

In the preceding code:

group: This is the value of group that should be None; this is reserved for future implementations
target: This is the function that is to be executed when you start a thread activity
name: This is the name of the thread; by default, a unique name of the form Thread-N is assigned to it
args: This is the tuple of arguments that are to be passed to a target
kwargs: This is the dictionary of keyword arguments that are to be used for the target function

It is useful to spawn a thread and pass arguments to it that tell it what work...

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