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Parallel figure generation in python
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# coding: utf-8 | |
# | |
# $ time ./Parallel_images.py | |
# Use 8 processes | |
# 107.249u 2.444s 0:17.10 641.4% 0+0k 0+0io 1056pf+0w | |
# | |
import os | |
import numpy as np | |
import multiprocessing | |
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt | |
import matplotlib as mpl | |
mpl.use('Agg') | |
N = 1000 | |
def generate_one_figure(it=1): | |
fig, ax = plt.subplots(ncols=1, nrows=1, figsize=(10,5), dpi=80) | |
x = np.linspace(-np.pi, np.pi, N) | |
ax.grid(1) | |
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x)) | |
ax.plot(x[it], np.sin(x[it]),'r+', markersize=12) | |
ax.set_title("%3d" % it) | |
fig.savefig(os.path.abspath(os.path.sep.join([".","dummy_images","image_%0.4d.png" % it]))) | |
plt.close(fig) | |
return None | |
print('Use %i processes' % multiprocessing.cpu_count() ) | |
with multiprocessing.Pool() as pool: | |
pool.map(generate_one_figure, np.arange(0,N)) |
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