submit jobs on multi-core

[Laszlo Nagy]

On 2012-09-11 06:16, Dhananjay wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a python script in which I have a list of files to input one by 
> one and for each file I get a number as an output.
> I used for loop to submit the file to script.
> My script uses one file at a time and returns the output.
>
> My computers has 8 cores.
> Is there any way that I could submit 8 jobs at a time and get all the 
> output faster ?
> In other words, how can I modify my script so that I could submit 8 
> jobs together on 8 different processors ?
>
> I am bit new to this stuff, please suggest me some directions.
You should first look at the multiprocessing module. It is part of the 
standard library.

http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html