Are we going to make zeromq+pyzmq a standard spkg anytime soon, or is anybody opposed to doing so? I think a communication framework would be potentially of more use than just for the notebook server, but I haven't seen any efforts towards including zeromq. Also, the new IPython can make use of zeromq so why not enable that functionality? Do we have a roadmap?
I did write an extension to @parallel to work with a cluster/grid/cloud of independent machines. It logs in via ssh, sets up tunnels, and then uses zeromq to communicate with the worker processes. And reliably sends stdout/err back to the server, so you actually get to see e.g. segfaults in worker processes. And kills off workers if something goes wrong. And (optionally) copies a working directory to the nodes. I think it would be of general interest, but of course depends on zeromq. On an unrelated note, zeromq was just forked by two of the original developers, see http://www.crossroads.io. Though I think for Sage purposes it doesn't matter which library provides the zeromq API. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
