Questions tagged [multiprocessing]

I logged into a server with multiprocessors and started 20 python programs, each processing part of my data. However, it cost too much time so I checked top and found all ipython processes are in sleeping. What's wrong? $ top -u calc top - 13:36:27…

I was just wondering why there is a need to go through all the trouble of creating distributed systems for massive parallel processing when, we could just create individual machines that support hundreds or thousands of cores/CPUs (or even GPGPUs)…