parallelly

Enhancing the 'parallel' Package

Last update: 14 February 2024

Copyright license: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1, GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier: 1.35.0, 1.36.0, 1.20.0, 1.21.0, 1.22.0, 1.23.0, 1.24.0, 1.25.0, 1.26.0, 1.26.1, 1.27.0, 1.28.1, 1.29.0, 1.30.0, 1.31.0, 1.31.1, 1.32.0, 1.32.1, 1.33.0, 1.34.0, 1.37.0

Description

Utility functions that enhance the 'parallel' package and support the built-in parallel backends of the 'future' package. For example, availableCores() gives the number of CPU cores available to your R process as given by the operating system, 'cgroups' and Linux containers, R options, and environment variables, including those set by job schedulers on high-performance compute clusters. If none is set, it will fall back to parallel::detectCores(). Another example is makeClusterPSOCK(), which is backward compatible with parallel::makePSOCKcluster() while doing a better job in setting up remote cluster workers without the need for configuring the firewall to do port-forwarding to your local computer.