******************************** PMI - Parallel Method Invocation ******************************** PMI is a pure python module that allows libraries to provide functions that are parallelized using MPI but that can nontheless be called from serial Python scripts. Requirements ------------ - Python version 2.4+ - An MPI module: - mpi4py (http://mpi4py.scipy.org/) is recommended and can be installed from PyPI via easy_install or pip. Installation ------------ To get and install PMI, you can either install it using easy_install: easy_install pmi or pip: pip install pmi or you can download it directly from the module's homepage: http://github.com/olenz/pmi and install it using the distutils: python setup.py install Documentation ------------- PMI is documented using pydoc, i.e. if you have a working python installation, you should be able to access the documentation using pydoc pmi Contributors ------------ Olaf Lenz <olaf@lenz.name> Thomas Brandes Axel Arnold Jonathan Halverson Torsten Stühn Dirk Reith Anton Schüller