A Task Based Parallelization Framework
Project description
Jug allows you to write code that is broken up into tasks and run different tasks on different processors.
It uses the filesystem to communicate between processes and works correctly over NFS, so you can coordinate processes on different machines.
Jug is a pure Python implementation and should work on any platform.
Website: http://luispedro.org/software/jug
Documentation: http://packages.python.org/Jug
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/jug-users
Short Example
Here is a one minute example. Save the following to a file called primes.py:
from jug import TaskGenerator from time import sleep @TaskGenerator def is_prime(n): sleep(1.) for j in xrange(2,n-1): if (n % j) == 0: return False return True primes100 = map(is_prime, xrange(2,101))
Of course, this is only for didactical purposes, normally you would use a better method. Similarly, the sleep function is so that it does not run too fast.
Now type jug status primes.py to get:
Task name Waiting Ready Finished Running ---------------------------------------------------------------------- primes.is_prime 0 99 0 0 ...................................................................... Total: 0 99 0 0
This tells you that you have 99 tasks called primes.is_prime ready to run. So run jug execute primes.py &. You can even run multiple instances in the background (if you have multiple cores, for example). After starting 4 instances and waiting a few seconds, you can check the status again (with jug status primes.py):
Task name Waiting Ready Finished Running ---------------------------------------------------------------------- primes.is_prime 0 63 32 4 ...................................................................... Total: 0 63 32 4
Now you have 32 tasks finished, 4 running, and 63 still ready. Eventually, they will all finish and you can inspect the results with jug shell primes.py. This will give you an ipython shell. The primes100 variable is available, but it is an ugly list of jug.Task objects. To get the actual value, you call the value function:
In [1]: primes100 = value(primes100) In [2]: primes100[:10] Out[2]: [True, True, False, True, False, True, False, False, False, True]
What’s New
Version 0.7.2: - included missing files in the distribution
Version 0.7.1: - sleep-until subcommand - bugfixes
Version 0.7 (starting with 0.6.9 in testing): - barrier() - better shell command
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