[OT]: PiCloud - really cool!

[geremy condra]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:13 PM, James Mills
<prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> If anyone hasn't seen this yet, I encourage you to!
> (I stumbled upon it with some random thoughts and Gooogling)
>
> http://www.picloud.com/
>
> Here's a quick test I wrote up that works locally using the simulator
> and live (I did run it live):
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import cloud
>
> def fib(n):
>    a, b, = 1, 1
>    while n > 1:
>        a, b = b, a + b
>        n -= 1
>    return b
>
> #cloud.start_simulator()
>
> jobs = cloud.map(fib, range(100))
>
> print [cloud.result(job) for job in jobs]
>
> Enjoy! :)

I was the poster across from them at PyCon two years back. Pretty fun
to play with, although last I checked it was hard to do true HPC on
it.

Geremy Condra