Distributed Computing with Python by Francesco Pierfederici
English | May 5, 2016 | ISBN: 1785889699 | 156 Pages | EPUB/PDF (conv) | 6.6 MB

CPU-intensive data processing tasks have become crucial considering the complexity of the various big data applications that are used today.


Key Features

You'll learn to write data processing programs in Python that are highly available, reliable, and fault tolerant
Make use of Amazon Web Services along with Python to establish a powerful remote computation system
Train Python to handle data-intensive and resource hungry applications

Book Description

This book will teach you how to perform parallel execution of computations by distributing them across multiple processors in a single machine, thus improving the overall performance of a big data processing task. We will cover synchronous and asynchronous models, shared memory and file systems, communication between various processes, synchronization, and more.

What You Will Learn

Get an introduction to parallel and distributed computing
See synchronous and asynchronous programming
Explore parallelism in Python
Distributed application with Celery
Python in the Cloud
Python on an HPC cluster
Test and debug distributed applications

About the Author

Francesco Pierfederici is a software engineer who loves Python. He has been working in the fields of astronomy, biology, and numerical weather forecasting for the last 20 years.

He has built large distributed systems that make use of tens of thousands of cores at a time and run on some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. He has also written a lot of applications of dubious usefulness but that are great fun. Mostly, he just likes to build things.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing
Asynchronous Programming
Parallelism in Python
Distributed Applications “ with Celery
Python in the Cloud
Python on an HPC Cluster
Testing and Debugging Distributed Applications
The Road Ahead