Simple distributed example for learning purposes?

[Tim Golden]

On 13/01/2010 20:24, Aahz wrote:
> In article<mailman.63.1261857971.28905.python-list at python.org>,
> Tim Golden<mail at timgolden.me.uk>  wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to come up with something which will illustrate the
>> usefulness of a distributed processing model. Since I may not be using
>> the term "distributed" exactly, my criteria are:
>
> Distributed spider with firewall that limits network I/O per computer
> (the firewall is useful but not essential).

Thanks; I'll add that to the list.

TJG