bploop: Internal Functions for SNOW-style Parallel Evaluation
In BiocParallel: Bioconductor facilities for parallel evaluation

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) Examples

The functions documented on this page are primarily for use within BiocParallel to enable SNOW-style parallel evaluation, using communication between manager and worker nodes through sockets.

## S3 method for class 'lapply'
bploop(manager, X, FUN, ARGFUN, BPPARAM, ...)

## S3 method for class 'iterate'
bploop(manager, ITER, FUN, ARGFUN, BPPARAM,
       REDUCE, init, reduce.in.order, ...)

`manager`	An object representing the manager node. For workers, this is the node to which the worker will communicate. For managers, this is the form of iteration – `lapply` or `iterate`.
`X`	A vector of jobs to be performed.
`FUN`	A function to apply to each job.
`ARGFUN`	A function accepting an integer value indicating the job number, and returning the job-specific arguments to `FUN`.
`BPPARAM`	An instance of a `BiocParallelParam` class.
`ITER`	A function used to generate jobs. No more jobs are available when `ITER()` returns `NULL`.
`REDUCE`	(Optional) A function combining two values returned by `FUN` into a single value.
`init`	(Optional) Initial value for reduction.
`reduce.in.order`	(Optional) logical(1) indicating that reduction must occur in the order jobs are dispatched (`TRUE`) or that reduction can occur in the order jobs are completed (`FALSE`).
`...`	Additional arguments, ignored in all cases.

Workers enter a loop. They wait to receive a message (R list) from the manager. The message contains a type element, with evaluation as follows:

“EXEC”: Execute the R code in the message, returning the result to the manager.
“DONE”: Signal termination to the manager, terminate the worker.

Managers under lapply dispatch pre-determined jobs, X, to workers, collecting the results from and dispatching new jobs to the first available worker. The manager returns a list of results, in a one-to-one correspondence with the order of jobs supplied, when all jobs have been evaluated.

Managers under iterate dispatch an undetermined number of jobs to workers, collecting previous jobs from and dispatching new jobs to the first available worker. Dispatch continues until available jobs are exhausted. The return value is by default a list of results in a one-to-one correspondence with the order of jobs supplied. The return value is influenced by REDUCE, init, and reduce.in.order.

Valerie Obenchain, Martin Morgan. Derived from similar functionality in the snow and parallel packages.