Parallelization with Python: which, where, how?

[Jp Calderone]

On 21 Dec 2004 05:04:36 -0800, Mike M?ller <mmueller at dgfz.de> wrote:
>> Can someone recommend a parallelization approach? Are there examples or 
> > documentation? Has someone got experience with stability and efficiency?
> 
> I am successfully using pyro http://pyro.sourceforge.net for my
> parallelization task (8 node Linux cluster, embarrassing parallel).
> It comes with a good documentation and it is easy to use. It works on
> clusters as well as on heterogeneous networks. You just need to start
> a server on each cluster node (e.g. rsh node1 startserver.py). You
> also need a name server running (maybe on your master node). Then a
> client can just asks a server to calculate and gets some result back.
> You can also send an object that calculates on the server and comes
> back including the result.
> 
> There are some examples included in the documentation you can start
> with and just change the parts that are specific to your application.
> 
> It is easy to understand and use and has been working well for me for
> more than 2 years.

  How have you chosen to deal with the security implications?

  Jp