On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Laurent Gatto <lg...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Dear all, > > Looking back in my (sparse) notes from the last European Bioc meeting, I > saw two points that were mentioned during the BatchJobs and BiocParallel > talk that are of particular interest to me. > > - BatchJobs: is there support, or are there any plans to support the > HTCondor infrastructure [1], and will this back-end be supported in > BiocParallel? > > If BatchJobs supports it, then so will BiocParallel, thanks to the abstraction. > - BiocParallel: is there support, or are there any plans to support > nested parallelisation. The use case I have in mind is to have a first > level of parallelisation to distribute n sets jobs on n different > machines using snow for example, and then each set of jobs would be > distributed on their respective machine via multicore? > > Yes, this is done by passing a list of BiocParallelParam objects to bplapply. Not sure if it's ever been tested though. > Any comments on the above solutions or their feasibility would be very > welcome. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Best wishes, > > Laurent > > [1] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/ > > > -- > Laurent Gatto > http://cpu.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk > http://proteomics.bio.cam.ac.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
