"python-safethread is a large modification of CPython intended to provide safe, easy, and scalable concurrency mechanisms. It focuses on local concurrency, not distributed or parallel programs."
"Submit a series of batch commands (as expected by the os.system() function). Each will be submitted in a separate python thread, but will be a separate process, hence will take advantage of multi-core cpu's."
"pp is a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters (computers connected via network)"