[IPython-dev] Parallel: Report progress from the engines

[Fernando Perez]

ps - note that you don't need MPI at all, in case that wasn't clear.
Those examples happen to be MPI ones, but the publish_data API has
nothing to do with MPI.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Darlan,
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
> <darcamo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> benjaminrk at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> Thank you Fernando and MinRK.
>>
>> I haven't used MPI before. I'll need some time to dig through these
>> examples, but it's a good start.
>>
>> I tried to run the notebooks, but I had a problem with the line below
>>
>>     from IPython.kernel.zmq.datapub import publish_data
>>
>> which gives me an import error, since IPython.kernel is not used
>> anymore. I could not find out where this function was moved to. Googling
>> for publish_data I found the notebook below
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/ellisonbg/ipython/8194b678147abb2d435a07714a9b3a0fdd99ca73/docs/examples/notebooks/publish_data.ipynb
>> which confirms this function is exactly what I was looking for (as long
>> as I can get the value of the published variable while the task is still
>> running). Is it still in IPython?
>
> Yes, in fact the above is the correct location for IPython 1.0.  If
> you are using IPython 0.13.x, you'll need to upgrade to 1.0, as the
> above functionality was not present in the 0.13.x series.
>
> Cheers,
>
> f



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