Adding Support for Windows Executables

* Added support for parallel processing through a .exe file on windows
* Swapped out joblib/multiprocessing for 'multiprocess' module in Pathos package

seismic/ASDFdatabase/utils.py

@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ def __init__(self, mseed_folder, pattern):
             # if (i > 0): break
         # end for
 
-        print('\nCreating metadata index for {} mseed files..'.format(len(self.meta_list)))
+        print('\nCreating metadata index for a total of {} traces found..'.format(len(self.meta_list)))
 
         for row in tqdm(self.meta_list):
             idx, nc, sc, lc, cc, st, et = row

seismic/ASDFdatabase/waveform_analytics.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import matplotlib
 from collections import defaultdict
 from obspy.core.inventory.response import Response
+import matplotlib
 from matplotlib import mlab
 from obspy.signal.invsim import cosine_taper
 from obspy.signal.spectral_estimation import get_nlnm, get_nhnm
@@ -33,11 +34,14 @@
 from seismic.inventory.response import ResponseFactory
 from tqdm import tqdm
 from matplotlib.colors import LinearSegmentedColormap
-from multiprocessing import Manager
 from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
-from joblib import Parallel, delayed
 import psutil
 
+from pathos.multiprocessing import ProcessingPool as Pool
+from multiprocess import Manager, freeze_support
+
+matplotlib.use('TKAgg')
+
 is_windows = sys.platform.startswith('win')
 
 class ProgressTracker(object):
@@ -165,11 +169,9 @@ def __init__(self,
 
         # launch parallel computations
         if (1):
-            Parallel(n_jobs=self.nproc) \
-                (delayed(self._generate_psds)(cst_list, cet_list) \
-                 for cst_list, cet_list in zip(proc_st_list, proc_et_list))
+            p = Pool(ncpus=self.nproc)
+            p.map(self._generate_psds, proc_st_list, proc_et_list)
         # end if
-
     # end func
 
     def _setup_period_bins(self):
@@ -225,7 +227,6 @@ def fft_taper(data):
             """
             data *= cosine_taper(len(data), 0.2)
             return data
-
         # end func
 
         for start_time, end_time in zip(start_time_list, end_time_list):
@@ -801,5 +802,8 @@ def get_time_range_func(net, sta, loc, cha):
 groups.add_command(process_asdf)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # add support for process-based multiprocessing for a Windows .exe
+    if(is_windows): freeze_support()
+
     groups()
 # end func