Speaking of ipyparallel, is it possible to specify a number of ipengines to simultaneously launch on a slave machine, and if so - how do I do it?
For example, one can specify a number of engines to launch on localhost with ipcluster start -n command, i.e. $ ipcluster start -n 4, but -n flag does not work with ipengine command.
The docs explicitly state that you need to "repeatedly" call ipengine:
Next, start however many instances of the engine you want using (repeatedly) the command:
$ ipengine
To start 4 engines from the "slave machine" use this at the command line:
for engine in {1..4}
do
ipengine &
done
It's probably worth also reading starting the controller and engines on different hosts.
