When a web application receives more requests than it can handle over a short period of time, it can become unresponsive. In the worst case, too many concurrent requests to a web application can cause the software which services the application to crash.
In an earlier post Over on the Twisted blog, Duncan McGreggor has asked us to expand a bit on where we think Twisted may be lacking in it’s support for concurrency. I’m afraid this has turned into a meandering essay, since I needed to reference so muc
ScientificPython is a collection of Python modules that are useful for scientific computing. In this collection you will find modules that cover basic geometry (vectors, tensors, transformations, vector and tensor fields), quaternions, automatic derivativ
This library provides Python functions for agglomerative clustering. Its features include * generating hierarchical clusters from distance matrices * computing distance matrices from observation vectors * computing statistics on clusters *
Hotwire is an object-oriented hypershell. It is a shell designed for systems programming (files, processes), and thus it is in the same conceptual category of software as the Unix shell+terminal and Windows PowerShell.
SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast
