On 14 January 2013 02:22, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Oscar Benjamin > <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 14 January 2013 02:10, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Has anyone used python for high-performance computing on Beowulf clusters? >> >> Yes. > > How did they deal with the Global interpreter lock across many machines?
Unless I've drastically misunderstood something there is no GIL across many machines. The GIL is a per-process lock so there is a different GIL for each process on the same machine and there is no interaction between the GILs on the same, or on different, machines. Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
