Parallel Topographica part 2

This is the first post for my MSc project. After the first meeting today my task for now is to review my old TODO list (which meant quick skim through, shift-select and delete), re-familiarise with the code and report on the current state.

Topographica install went ok, parallel stuff works as well. I checked if there were new versions of OpenMPI and mpi4py released, and yes they were: mpi4py 1.2.2 and OpenMPI 1.4.3. I successfully upgraded both, everything still seems to run. Think I'll go ahead and run a quick simulation in parallel just to make sure nothing has been broken.