from IPython.kernel import client tc = client.TaskClient() result = tc.map(lambda x: 2*x, range(10)) print "Simple, default map: ", result m = tc.mapper(block=False, clear_after=True, clear_before=True) tids = m.map(lambda x: 2*x, range(10)) print "Submitted tasks, got ids: ", tids tc.barrier(tids) result = [tc.get_task_result(tid) for tid in tids] print "Using a mapper: ", result @tc.parallel() def f(x): return 2*x result = f(range(10)) print "Using a parallel function: ", result