Thx a lot. You saved my life :)

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 3:00:25 PM UTC+2, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> Within the next few days, support for native threads will be merged into 
> to the development version of Julia (
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13410 
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FJuliaLang%2Fjulia%2Fpull%2F13410&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH7zK_jDRkwc3A-kFUUNZEcf-LbbA>
> ).
>
> You can also used the SharedArray type which Julia already has, which lets 
> multiple Julia processes running on the same machine share memory. You 
> would use the standard Julia task-parallel tools (like @parfor, etc.) in 
> that model. 
>
> On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 8:34:02 AM UTC-4, cheng wang wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all for replying.
>>
>> I have read th parallel computing document before I post this.
>> Actually, what I mean is a shared memory model not a distributed model.
>>
>> My daily research involves extensively using of blas and parallel 
>> for-loop.
>> Julia has a perfect support for blas, as well parallel for-loop could be 
>> solved by multi-process.
>>
>> However, if I want to have a shared array that could do efficient blast 
>> and parallel for-loop in the same time,
>> what is the best solution ??
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 4:24:51 PM UTC+2, Andrei Zh wrote:
>>>
>>> Julia supports multiprocessing pretty well, including map-reduce-like 
>>> jobs. E.g. in the next example I add 3 processes to a "workgroup", 
>>> distribute simulation between them and then reduce results via (+) operator:
>>>
>>>
>>> julia> addprocs(3)
>>> 3-element Array{Int64,1}:
>>>  2
>>>  3
>>>  4
>>>
>>>
>>> julia> nheads = @parallel (+) for i=1:200000000
>>>          Int(rand(Bool))
>>>        end
>>> 100008845
>>>
>>> You can find full example and a lot of other fun in official 
>>> documentation on parallel computing: 
>>>
>>> http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computing/
>>>
>>> Note, though, that it's not real (i.e. Hadoop/Spark-like) map-reduce, 
>>> since original idea of MR concerns distributed systems and data-local 
>>> computations, while here we do everything on the same machine. If you are 
>>> looking for big data solution, search this forum for some (dead or alive) 
>>> projects for it. 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 11:52:21 PM UTC+3, cheng wang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I am a Julia newbie. I am thrilled by Julia recently. It's an amazing 
>>>> language!
>>>>
>>>> I notice that julia currently does not have good support for 
>>>> multi-threading programming.
>>>> So I am thinking that a spark-like mapreduce parallel model + 
>>>> multi-process maybe enough.
>>>> It is easy to be thread-safe and It could solve most vector-based 
>>>> computation.
>>>>
>>>> This idea might be too naive. However, I am happy to see your opinions.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Cheng
>>>>
>>>

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