to correct for my earlier mistake... the board consists of an arm processor (like a phone) and an array of smaller processors. linux and python will run on the arm, but not on the smaller processors.
multiprocessing works by running a separate copy of python on each core and then managing data transfer. so it won't help you here, because you would need python to be running on each of the smaller processors in the array.
instead you need to target the array processors in a dedicated language. people are mentioning opencl (which is c-like, but has a very strong emphasis on all processors doing the same task); the wikipedia page describes a gcc-based compiler.
at a stretch, perhaps you could use the gcc-based c compiler to compile python and get multiprocessing working that way. but i imagine that it would be a lot of work and an inefficient way to use the system (the small cores are not very powerful, so you need to keep overhead down, so python is a bad idea).
if someone can get erlang working across the array then that might be your best bet. erlang is a little bit like python and multiprocessing (not terribly similar, but close enough for many things to make sense).
multiprocessing works by running a separate copy of python on each core and then managing data transfer. so it won't help you here, because you would need python to be running on each of the smaller processors in the array.
instead you need to target the array processors in a dedicated language. people are mentioning opencl (which is c-like, but has a very strong emphasis on all processors doing the same task); the wikipedia page describes a gcc-based compiler.
at a stretch, perhaps you could use the gcc-based c compiler to compile python and get multiprocessing working that way. but i imagine that it would be a lot of work and an inefficient way to use the system (the small cores are not very powerful, so you need to keep overhead down, so python is a bad idea).
if someone can get erlang working across the array then that might be your best bet. erlang is a little bit like python and multiprocessing (not terribly similar, but close enough for many things to make sense).