[IPython-dev] Parallel programming dependencies

John Gill jgill at tokiomillennium.com
Wed Apr 30 16:50:14 EDT 2014


Thanks for this.

I think the ‘follow’ temp flag might allow me to deal with the issue I raised the other day about having a non-homogeneous cluster (made up of engines on different OS’es) and have some tasks that can only run on a specific OS.   A similar use case would be having a non-homogeneous cluster and wanting some tasks to run on the engines with more memory or faster cpus.

So my plan is to run a task on each node to find out what OS it has and save the msg_ids into different sets based on the OS.

Now, when I have a task that has to run on a specific OS I can do something like:

with view.temp_flags(follow=linux, after=deps):

    msg_id = view.apply_async(task)

Will let you know how this works out – be very cool if this just works.

John

From: ipython-dev-bounces at scipy.org [mailto:ipython-dev-bounces at scipy.org] On Behalf Of MinRK
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:21 PM
To: IPython developers list
Subject: Re: [IPython-dev] Parallel programming dependencies


Passing output from one task to the input of another is not well supported. As others have said, one approach is to persist the results to the filesystem.
Another, assuming it’s okay to restrict dependent tasks to run on the same engine as the dependency, is to persist the values in the engine’s namespace and use parallel.Reference to get it as an argument to subsequent tasks.

Here’s an example<http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/minrk/11415238> of doing this.

-MinRK

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Andrea Zonca <zonca at sdsc.edu<mailto:zonca at sdsc.edu>> wrote:
Hi,

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe at gmail.com<mailto:a.h.jaffe at gmail.com>> wrote:
> the particular difference is passing the output of the
> earlier tasks to the later ones -- this is a use-case that is very
> specifically not addressed in those examples or the docs -- each of the
> view.apply calls there just use no arguments, where I want to use the
> value calculated by a previous view.apply.
Not sure I understand your application,
but isn't it an option to write the results to a shared filesystem
from the early task and read it from the late task?
This would work for tasks running on different nodes.
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