 'pathos' provides a fork of python's 'multiprocessing', where 'pathos.multiprocessing' can send a much broader range of the built-in python types across a parallel 'map' and 'pipe' (similar to python's 'map' and 'apply'). 'pathos' also provides a unified interface for parallelism across processors, threads, sockets (using a fork of 'parallelpython'), and across 'ssh'.