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Python Parallel Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Giancarlo Zaccone
Book Image

Python Parallel Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Giancarlo Zaccone

Overview of this book

<p>Nowadays, it has become extremely important for programmers to understand the link between the software and the parallel nature of their hardware so that their programs run efficiently on computer architectures. Applications based on parallel programming are fast, robust, and easily scalable. </p><p> </p><p>This updated edition features cutting-edge techniques for building effective concurrent applications in Python 3.7. The book introduces parallel programming architectures and covers the fundamental recipes for thread-based and process-based parallelism. You'll learn about mutex, semaphores, locks, queues exploiting the threading, and multiprocessing modules, all of which are basic tools to build parallel applications. Recipes on MPI programming will help you to synchronize processes using the fundamental message passing techniques with mpi4py. Furthermore, you'll get to grips with asynchronous programming and how to use the power of the GPU with PyCUDA and PyOpenCL frameworks. Finally, you'll explore how to design distributed computing systems with Celery and architect Python apps on the cloud using PythonAnywhere, Docker, and serverless applications. </p><p> </p><p>By the end of this book, you will be confident in building concurrent and high-performing applications in Python.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication

Avoiding deadlock problems

A common problem we face is deadlock. This is a situation where two (or more) processes block each other and wait for the other to perform a certain action that serves another and vice versa. The mpi4py module doesn't provide any specific functionality to resolve the deadlock problem, but there are some measures that the developer must follow in order to avoid the problem of deadlock.

How to do it...

Let's first analyze the following Python code, which will introduce a typical deadlock problem. We have two processes—rank equal to 1 and rank equal to 5—that communicate with each other and both have the data sender and data receiver functionalities:

  1. Import the mpi4py library:
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