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
>

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