Week 02 (January 15)

Tuesday

• Using the Python multiprocessing module

  • (demo0) Spawning a single process, starting a process, terminating a process, pid,is_alive,start,terminate
  • (demo1) Getting the process to do something
    • target= function
    • track process in Activity monitor (use time.sleep())
    • mp.current_process().name
  • (demo2) Passing arguments to a spawned process
    • args= list of arguments to each process
  • (demo3) Spawning multiple processes
    • Processes could be doing different things
    • join command to process data in order.
    • mp.Value, mp.Array, join
  • (demo4) Computing a mean
    • Compute the mean for vector of length N?
    • Show scaling for multiple processors

Thursday

• (demo0) Further discussion of the join command.

• (demo1) Using shared variables with mp.Value, mp.Array (continued from Tuesday)

• (demo2) Using Queues to return value from processes.

• (demo3) Computing the mean of an array of numbers.