Python Parallel Programming Cookbook

Introduction 2 The parallel computing memory architecture 3 Memory organization 6 Parallel programming models 14 How to design a parallel program 16 How to evaluate the performance of a parallel program 19 Introducing Python 21 Python in a parallel world 26 Introducing processes and threads 26 Start working with processes in Python 27 Start working with threads in Python 29 Chapter 2: Thread-based Parallelism 33 Introduction 34 Using the Python threading module 35 How to define a thread 35 How to determine the current thread 37 How to use a thread in a subclass 39 Thread synchronization with Lock and RLock