I've encountered a similar problem, but do not have a solution to report. I'm not sure why require was depreciated. It worked quite well.
On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 10:35:20 AM UTC-4, Christopher Fisher wrote: > > Hi all- > > I am trying to load a file of functions on a cluster of computers. In the > past, I used require() (now depreciated) and the sendto() function > described here > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27677399/julia-how-to-copy-data-to-another-processor-in-julia>to > > make a data variable available on all workers. ( Note that I cannot simply > load the data upon initializing the program because the data will change > outside of the module, eventually receiving a stream of data from another > program. So speed and flexibility is imperative). As recommended here > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/$20require/julia-users/6zBKw4nd20I/5JLt7Ded0zkJ>, > > I defined a module containing the functions and used "using MyModule" to > send it to the available workers. It seems that the major limitation of > this approach is that data is not available to the functions within the > module when using sendto(). I suspect this is because modules are > encapsulated from other variables and functions. Bearing that in mind: > > > 1. Is there a way around this problem using the module method? > > 2. Alternatively, is there a way I can make the functions and packages > available to the workers without using modules? Perhaps something akin to > the old require method? > > 3. Or is there a way to send the data via map() along with my function and > distributed array? Essentially, my code loads stored inputs for numerous > kernel density functions and converts them to a distributed array of > arrays. For example: > > map(EvalKDFs,MyDistArray) > > Each time the above function is called, "MyData" needs to be available to > the function EvalKDFs. However, map(EvalKDFs,MyDistArray,MyData) does not > work because there is one array of data and many arrays within MyDistArray. > > I might be able to post a stripped down version of my code if my > description does not suffice. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >
