No speedup on multi-processor machine?

[Caleb Hattingh]

On Apr 21, 11:02 pm, danfan1... at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Python Thread library for my parallel processing course
> project. I am doing matrix convolution on a multi-processor machine
> running Solaris. I just found out that no speed-up is obtained with
> threading. It is probably because of something called GIL in Python.
> How can I get around
> that GIL and get speed-up?
> Thanks in advance.
> Daniel

Perhaps try

http://www.parallelpython.com/

or

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~astraw/seppo.html

Caleb