Thanks. I found the SharedArray. Its a pattern I've used before in a DIY way and works well. With this and UDP I think I've enough to figure out a design and start looking at performance.
-- bob On Sunday, February 9, 2014 8:11:04 PM UTC, Bob Cowdery wrote: > > Hi > > Reading the docs it seems that the parallel methods (on the same node) all > use process to process communication over TCP rather than threads. Correct > me if I'm wrong here. It seems to be the same sort of approach as Python > multiprocessing (due to its single threaded runtime). This approach > requires a data copy ( 2 actually) and theoretically puts a high overhead > on pipeline type processing because of the data copy, transmission time and > consequent memory churn. Am I reading this correctly? > > Thanks > -- bob >