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' ]