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Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 17:19:38 -0700
Subject: Re: [OT]: PiCloud - really cool!
From: geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com>
To: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:13 PM, James Mills
<prologic@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> If anyone hasn't seen this yet, I encourage you to!
> (I stumbled upon it with some random thoughts and Gooogling)
>
> http://www.picloud.com/
>
> Here's a quick test I wrote up that works locally using the simulator
> and live (I did run it live):
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import cloud
>
> def fib(n):
> =A0 =A0a, b, =3D 1, 1
> =A0 =A0while n > 1:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0a, b =3D b, a + b
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0n -=3D 1
> =A0 =A0return b
>
> #cloud.start_simulator()
>
> jobs =3D cloud.map(fib, range(100))
>
> print [cloud.result(job) for job in jobs]
>
> Enjoy! :)

I was the poster across from them at PyCon two years back. Pretty fun
to play with, although last I checked it was hard to do true HPC on
it.

Geremy Condra