Hello, I found the following page on running Python using "parallel processing", but I have no idea which one would be most compatible with matplotlib and basemap. http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing Any help would be greatly appreciated. I looked through the archives and it looks like in 2009 at the conference there was a session on using mpi4py; is that still the best option? Thank you in advance. Sincerely, Jeremy Lounds