Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around ... It, too, is a library for distributed parallel computing in Python, with a ...

Professor Norm Matloff from UC Davis is offering the community an open textbook: Programming on Parallel Machines; GPU, Multicore, Clusters and More. Matloff describes the book as suitable for either ...

The biggest game-changer to come along is MapReduce, the parallel programming framework that has gained prominence ... in languages like C, Java, Python and Perl. In addition to its familiar syntax, ...