Chapter 1. Getting Started with Parallel Computing and Python
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- What is parallel computing?
- 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 and Python
- Start working with threads and Python
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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook
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