Python: Makes your CPU sweat

cpu_hog.py

from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, wait

WORKERS = 6
futures = []


def cpu_hog():
    print("Starting computation")
    return 2 ** 10000000000000000


with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=WORKERS) as exe:
    print("Submitting compute-intensive jobs")
    for _ in range(WORKERS - 1):
        futures.append(exe.submit(cpu_hog))

        
print("Waiting for processes to finish", flush=True)
wait(futures)