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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

By : Zaccone
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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

By: 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.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)
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Index

Handling coroutines with Asyncio

We saw, in the course of the various examples presented, that when a program becomes very long and complex, it is convenient to divide it into subroutines, each of which realizes a specific task for which it implements a suitable algorithm. The subroutine cannot be executed independently, but only at the request of the main program, which is then responsible for coordinating the use of subroutines. Coroutines are a generalization of the subroutine. Like a subroutine, the coroutine computes a single computational step, but unlike subroutines, there is no main program that can be used to coordinate the results. This is because the coroutines link themselves together to form a pipeline without any supervising function responsible for calling them in a particular order. In a coroutine, the execution point can be suspended and resumed later after keeping track of its local state in the intervening time. Having a pool of coroutines, it is possible to interleave...