Simple distributed example for learning purposes?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.63.1261857971.28905.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Golden  <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
>I'm trying to come up with something which will illustrate the
>usefulness of a distributed processing model. Since I may not be using
>the term "distributed" exactly, my criteria are:

Distributed spider with firewall that limits network I/O per computer
(the firewall is useful but not essential).
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