There's more than one way to do it. If you're thinking about hundreds of threads doing chunks of work, then my comment will not be meaningful but if you're talk

There's more than one way to do it. If you're thinking about hundreds of threads doing chunks of work, then my comment will not be meaningful but if you're talking about maximizing CPU utilization for a particular task, then multiple processes is a valid and proven approach (Tornado does just that for example, forking as many processes as you have CPUs and putting them to work).