Resource for julia multiprocessing

[jpfairbanks]

Is there any reason not to use this package for managing distributed computing with Julia processes?

[timholy]

I'm not aware of any. As you probably already noticed, it's basically a tiny "intent-signaling" package. I'd be happy to consider extensions if you discover you need them.

[jpfairbanks]

Ok yeah I think this is a way for us to handle parallelism for LightGraphs. Where the algorithms and datastructures need to change based on the resources you want to use. I think we would want something like CPUThreads but for for processes. CPUProcesses? Or use case would probably have in the Settings field

• Number of Threads
• PartitionScheme Replicated, OneDPartition, TwoDPartition

Where 1D partition is for splitting vertices and 2D partition is for spliting edges. Like in MPI for linear algebra.

[timholy]

Sounds great to me. Since the only "generic" parameter here might be nthreads and you're the first/only consumer of this functionality, I'd say just write your own specialized object for that settings field and you're good to go. If we find ourselves getting a huge number of clients of that functionality we could think about abstractions when we have enough examples to think about.

[timholy]

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