less is more :) one one the best and most memorable talks i went to was 4 slides long.
that said i've been thinking a lot the past week or so about a machine i can dedicate to scientific computing, preferably using Sage noteboks or something like that. i have some long running evaluations (graphs) that i would rather not crush my laptop for. and so i get to thinking about the kind of machine i want to do this on, something parallel is tempting because of the higher speed gains. that said, i'm wondering if that would help Python (and hence Sage) or not. so now i'm looking at something like iJulia (Julia in an IPython notebook) and cobbling together something like this.
than i see your parallel python mods and wonder if i should try this. should i? will it help me in my use case (speeding up a Sage server)?