If you add processes on all of those machines, pmap will just work. Is that
what you're thinking of?


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:28 PM, John Drummond <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> Are there any recommendations for running embarrassingly parallel problems
> across multiple windows machines?
>
> I have to do the same piece of work on multiple multiple GB files - which
> takes hours on a single machine spun out across the cores with parallel map.
>
> I'm lucky enough to have access to several windows machines and also a
> couple of debian ones and was wondering what the best way to split the job
> across them
>
> I've copied the source data across all the machines.
>
> Is there some equivalent of pmap that anyone has running across multiple
> machines (e.g. with ssh or mpi)?
>
> or should I just write my own start up and wind down scripts and in that
> split the work into chunks for each machine communicating via ssh or
> whatever?
>
> Set up linux virtual machines and then use the current addprocs with extra
> machines?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>
>

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