PPlus 0.5.2

A Parallel Python Environment with easy data sharing

About

PPlus is a simple environment to execute Python code in parallel on many machines without much effort. It is actually a fork of Parallel Python, another simple but powerful framework for parallel execution of python code, which lacks features needed for effective use in our daily research.

Important links

• Home Page (stable documentation): http://slipguru.disi.unige.it/Software/PPlus

• Official source code repo: https://bitbucket.org/slipguru/pplus/

• Download releases: https://bitbucket.org/slipguru/pplus/downloads

• Issue tracker: https://bitbucket.org/slipguru/pplus/issues

Install

To install this packages, you can use the default distutils commands:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

To check the installation, you can launch the test suite:

python -c "import pplus; pplus.test()"

Note that tests will print reports of expected raised exceptions. Check if you get OK or FAILED status at the end.

Configuration

All the configuration option must be specified in a PPlus configuration file. After the installation, a ready-to-edit configuration file is installed in /etc/pplus/pplus.cfg (see documentation for more information about PPlus configuration)