pmap already does dynamic scheduling, tasks get assigned dynamically as workers become available. This strategy can only do so much if the tasks are extremely imbalanced.
On Thursday, January 1, 2015 9:10:51 PM UTC-5, Gabriel Mihalache wrote: > > Hello, all! > > I have a pmap over a "large" array, 25^2, and each call does quite a bit > of work, but some end up having to do a lot more than others. Using htop I > notice that most CPUs on most nodes are close to idle (I'm running this on > a SLURM cluster). > > Is there a pmap (drop-in?) replacement which has a different scheduling > strategy? Something comparable with OpenMP's dynamic scheduling? Am I > misunderstanding the entire philosophy of pmap? > > Thank you! > Gabriel >
