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+Cluster Futures
+===============
+
+This module provides a Python [concurrent.futures][futures] executor that lets
+you run functions on remote systems in your [Condor][] cluster. Stop worrying
+about writing job files, scattering/gathering, and serialization---this module
+does it all for you.
+
+It uses [PiCloud][]'s advanced pickler to even allow (most) closures to be used
+transparently, so you're not limited to "pure" functions.
+
+Depends on `concurrent.futures` and `cloud`, so just run `pip install futures
+cloud` to get up and running. See `example.py` for example usage.
+
+[futures]: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/concurrent.futures.html
+[Condor]: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
+[PiCloud]: http://www.picloud.com/