IPython Parallel Quickstart
Aside from its official documentation the following steps will get you quickly started with IPython Parallel.
$ pip install ipyparallel
To start 1 controller and 4 engines:
$ ipcluster start -n 4
At this point you can interact with the cluster via IPython.
In [1]: import ipyparallel as ipp
In [2]: c = ipp.Client()
In [3]: c.ids
Out[3]: [0, 1, 2, 3]
In [4]: c[:].apply_sync(lambda : "Hello, World")
Out[4]: [ 'Hello, World', 'Hello, World', 'Hello, World', 'Hello, World' ]