Distributed hello world

Originally by Ken Kinder (ken at kenkinder dom com)

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from IPython.parallel import Client
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rc = Client()
view = rc.load_balanced_view()
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def sleep_and_echo(t, msg):
    import time
    time.sleep(t)
    return msg
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world = view.apply_async(sleep_and_echo, 3, 'World!')
hello = view.apply_async(sleep_and_echo, 2, 'Hello')
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print "Submitted tasks:", hello.msg_ids + world.msg_ids
print hello.get(), world.get()

Submitted tasks: ['04670c2d-b2fd-4b6b-a5ac-dee15e533683', 'fc802284-507b-4c29-a526-67396e17718c']
Hello World!
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