.. pyDive documentation master file, created by sphinx-quickstart on Wed Jul 23 15:53:56 2014. You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least contain the root `toctree` directive. Welcome to pyDive's documentation! ================================== Contents: .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 4 start tutorial reference Indices and tables ================== * :ref:`genindex` * :ref:`modindex` * :ref:`search` .. glossary:: engine The cluster nodes of *IPython.parallel* are called *engines*. Sometimes they are also called *targets*. They are the workers of pyDive performing all the computation and file i/o and they hold the actual array-memory. From the user perspective you don't to deal with them directly.