[tanlermin]

Check out dask for distributed and out of core parallel programming : http://www.slideshare.net/continuumio

Its free with a permissive license.

It is also capable of native HDFS integration, Yarn etc and can do more complex and granular parallel patterns than just map reduce. Also has a API for distributed dataframes and arrays with linear algebra ops.

DISCLAIMER: I don't work for continuum. I just want to see its projects succeed because I was a user will benefit.

[gshulegaard]

I think you might be interested by this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVBLF0ohcrE

[tanlermin]

Thanks...though the whole "GIL being a feature" is sort of a joke.

[gshulegaard]

I believe he meant it as a joke. At least that's how I interpreted it :)