Best way to run via parallel processing

Hello,

I found the following page on running Python using "parallel processing",
but I have no idea which one would be most compatible with matplotlib and
basemap.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I looked through the archives and it
looks like in 2009 at the conference there was a session on using mpi4py;
is that still the best option?

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Jeremy Lounds