[Chicago] MPI in Python?

[Pete]

On Wednesday February 27 2008 1:15:19 pm skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Massimo> Is the CPU don't share the same RAM threading is not an option
>     Massimo> unless you use OpenMP, which emulates shared memory but it is
>     Massimo> very slow compared with MPI. Nobody uses it anymore.
>
> So MPI means "Message Passing Interface" where the messages must be passed
> via shared memory?  *sigh* If so, I'll look elsewhere for solutions.

My presentation at the March meeting is on my recent work on GrassyKnoll, 
including a multi-{thread,core,box} message passing layer. Lock-free 
concurrency at it's best - kill the GIL where it lives.

Oh, did I mention it's based on HTTP?  Yeah.

--Pete

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