Can Parallel Python run on a muti-CPU server ?

[fdu.xiaojf at gmail.com]

fdu.xiaojf at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in Parallel Python and I learned from the website of 
> Parallel Python
> that it can run on SMP and clusters. But can it run on a our muti-CPU 
> server ?
> We are running an origin3800 server with 128 CPUs.
>
> Thanks.
>   
I have tested that at least it could run sum_primes.py on our server.

But it seems Parallel Python just launch one python process for
each job, and if I let it use 12 CPUs for 8 jobs, Parallel Python
launches 12 python processes, 4 of which just sleep until all 8 jobs
are done.