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openquake.baselib
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`openquake.baselib` is a collection of utilities to run large numeric
simulations. It includes support for parallel computing (via multiprocessing
or zmq), performance monitoring and a serialization library
from Python objects to HDF5 files and viceversa.

Development and support
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`openquake.baselib` is being actively developed by GEM foundation as a part of
OpenQuake project. The public repository is available on github:
http://github.com/gem/oq-engine. A mailing list is available as well:
http://groups.google.com/group/openquake-users.

Installation
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`openquake.baselib` is currently part of the OpenQuake engine and can be
installed simply with

```
$ pip install openquake.engine
```

or in several other ways, see
https://github.com/gem/oq-engine/blob/engine-3.21/README.md

License
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openquake.baselib is licensed under terms of GNU Affero General Public
License 3.0.