Examples

IPython Parallel

Install IPython Parallel and start IP Controller:

$ conda install ipyparallel
or
$ pip ipyparallel
$ ipcontroller --ip=*

IPController will create a file: ipcontroller-engine.json which contains metadata and security information needed by worker nodes to connect back to the controller. In a separate shell or terminal we use knit to ship a self-contained environment with ipyparallel (and other dependenices) and start ipengine

>>> from knit import Knit
>>> k = Knit(autodetect=True)
>>> env = k.create_env(env_name='ipyparallel', packages=['numpy', 'ipyparallel', 'python=3'])
>>> controller = '<HOMEDIR>/.ipython/profile_default/security/ipcontroller-engine.json'
>>> cmd = '$PYTHON_BIN $CONDA_PREFIX/bin/ipengine --file=ipcontroller-engine.json'
>>> app_id = k.start(cmd, env=env, files=[controller], num_containers=3)

IPython Parallel is now running in 3 containers on our YARN managed cluster:

>>> from ipyparallel import Client
>>> c = Client()
>>> c.ids
[2, 3, 4]