[IPython-dev] Kernels and parallel support?

[Doug Blank]

After reading:

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/parallel/parallel_intro.html

and related pages, I am unsure what the relationship between parallel
processing and kernels are. Can external kernels be used in a parallel
environment? Or is this part of IPython python-kernel specific? Does
it use ZMQ messages?

Thanks for any additional data,

-Doug