diff --git a/lib/orchpy/arrays/dist/core.py b/lib/orchpy/arrays/dist/core.py
index 08d379b3..6feaa94d 100644
--- a/lib/orchpy/arrays/dist/core.py
+++ b/lib/orchpy/arrays/dist/core.py
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 import orchpy as op
 
 __all__ = ["BLOCK_SIZE", "DistArray", "assemble", "zeros", "ones", "copy",
-           "eye", "triu", "tril", "blockwise_dot", "dot", "block_column", "block_row"]
+           "eye", "triu", "tril", "blockwise_dot", "dot", "block_column",
+           "block_row", "gather", "shape"]
 
 BLOCK_SIZE = 10
 
@@ -202,3 +203,23 @@ def block_row(a, row):
   result = DistArray()
   result.construct(shape, a.objrefs[row, :])
   return result
+
+@op.distributed([np.ndarray], [List[tuple]])
+def shape(objrefs):
+  shapes = [single.shape(objref) for objref in objrefs]
+  return [op.pull(shape) for shape in shapes]
+
+@op.distributed([np.ndarray, np.ndarray, int], [np.ndarray])
+def gather(objrefs, indices, axis):
+  perm = indices.argsort()
+  sorted_indices = indices[perm]
+  shapes = op.pull(shape(objrefs))
+  cumsizes = np.zeros(len(shapes) + 1, dtype="int64") # + 1 for leading zero
+  np.array([s[axis] for s in shapes]).cumsum(out=cumsizes[1:])
+  ranges = np.searchsorted(sorted_indices, cumsizes[1:])
+  idx = 0
+  results = []
+  for i, nextidx in enumerate(ranges):
+      results.append(single.gather(objrefs[i], sorted_indices[idx:nextidx] - cumsizes[i]))
+      idx = nextidx
+  return np.vstack([op.pull(r) for r in results])[indices]
diff --git a/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/__init__.py b/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/__init__.py
index 967afbb6..0f9d7834 100644
--- a/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 import random, linalg
-from core import zeros, zeros_like, ones, eye, dot, vstack, hstack, subarray, copy, tril, triu
+from core import zeros, zeros_like, ones, eye, dot, vstack, hstack, subarray, copy, tril, triu, gather, shape
diff --git a/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/core.py b/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/core.py
index e634dd8f..a6360118 100644
--- a/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/core.py
+++ b/lib/orchpy/arrays/single/core.py
@@ -49,3 +49,11 @@ def tril(a):
 @op.distributed([np.ndarray], [np.ndarray])
 def triu(a):
   return np.triu(a)
+
+@op.distributed([np.ndarray, np.ndarray], [np.ndarray])
+def gather(a, indices):
+  return a[indices]
+
+@op.distributed([np.ndarray], [tuple])
+def shape(a):
+  return a.shape
diff --git a/src/orchpylib.cc b/src/orchpylib.cc
index 293e1fb7..7fea77d9 100644
--- a/src/orchpylib.cc
+++ b/src/orchpylib.cc
@@ -237,6 +237,13 @@ int serialize(PyObject* val, Obj* obj) {
           }
         }
         break;
+      case NPY_INT64: {
+          npy_int64* buffer = (npy_int64*) PyArray_DATA(array);
+          for (npy_intp i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
+            data->add_int_data(buffer[i]);
+          }
+        }
+        break;
       case NPY_OBJECT: { // FIXME(pcm): Support arbitrary python objects, not only objrefs
           PyArrayIterObject* iter = (PyArrayIterObject*) PyArray_IterNew((PyObject*)array);
           while (PyArray_ITER_NOTDONE(iter)) {
@@ -327,6 +334,13 @@ PyObject* deserialize(const Obj& obj) {
             }
           }
           break;
+        case NPY_INT64: {
+            npy_int64* buffer = (npy_int64*) PyArray_DATA(pyarray);
+            for (npy_intp i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
+              buffer[i] = array.int_data(i);
+            }
+          }
+          break;
         default:
           PyErr_SetString(OrchPyError, "deserialization: internal error (array type not implemented)");
           return NULL;
diff --git a/test/arrays_test.py b/test/arrays_test.py
index f2b6e972..eac116a2 100644
--- a/test/arrays_test.py
+++ b/test/arrays_test.py
@@ -191,6 +191,17 @@ def testMethods(self):
     z = dist.dot(x, y)
     self.assertTrue(np.allclose(orchpy.pull(dist.assemble(z)), np.dot(orchpy.pull(dist.assemble(x)), orchpy.pull(dist.assemble(y)))))
 
+    x = single.random.normal([25, 49])
+    y = single.random.normal([13, 49])
+    z = single.random.normal([100, 49])
+    w = single.random.normal([2, 49])
+    shapes = orchpy.pull(dist.shape(np.array([x, y, z, w])))
+    self.assertTrue(np.array([shape[0] for shape in shapes]).sum() == 25 + 13 + 100 + 2)
+    perm = np.random.permutation(25 + 13 + 100 + 2)
+    result = np.vstack([orchpy.pull(x), orchpy.pull(y), orchpy.pull(z), orchpy.pull(w)])
+    u = dist.gather(np.array([x, y, z, w], dtype=object), perm, 0)
+    self.assertTrue(np.alltrue(result[perm,:] == orchpy.pull(u)))
+
     services.cleanup()
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':