crew_launcher_cluster: *[Maturing]* Create an abstract cluster launcher object.

In crew.cluster: Crew Launcher Plugins for Traditional High-Performance Computing Clusters

Create an abstract cluster launcher object.

Description

Create an R6 abstract cluster launcher object.

Usage

crew_launcher_cluster(
  name = NULL,
  workers = 1L,
  seconds_interval = 0.5,
  seconds_timeout = 60,
  seconds_launch = 86400,
  seconds_idle = 300,
  seconds_wall = Inf,
  tasks_max = Inf,
  tasks_timers = 0L,
  reset_globals = NULL,
  reset_packages = NULL,
  reset_options = NULL,
  garbage_collection = NULL,
  crashes_error = NULL,
  tls = crew::crew_tls(mode = "automatic"),
  r_arguments = c("--no-save", "--no-restore"),
  options_metrics = crew::crew_options_metrics(),
  options_cluster = crew.cluster::crew_options_cluster(),
  verbose = NULL,
  command_submit = NULL,
  command_terminate = NULL,
  command_delete = NULL,
  script_directory = NULL,
  script_lines = NULL
)

Arguments

name	Character string, name of the launcher. If the name is NULL, then a name is automatically generated when the launcher starts.
workers	Maximum number of workers to run concurrently when auto-scaling, excluding task retries and manual calls to launch(). Special workers allocated for task retries do not count towards this limit, so the number of workers running at a given time may exceed this maximum. A smaller number of workers may run if the number of executing tasks is smaller than the supplied value of the workers argument.
seconds_interval	Number of seconds between polling intervals waiting for certain internal synchronous operations to complete. In certain cases, exponential backoff is used with this argument passed to seconds_max in a crew_throttle() object.
seconds_timeout	Number of seconds until timing out while waiting for certain synchronous operations to complete, such as checking mirai::status().
seconds_launch	Seconds of startup time to allow. A worker is unconditionally assumed to be alive from the moment of its launch until seconds_launch seconds later. After seconds_launch seconds, the worker is only considered alive if it is actively connected to its assign websocket.
seconds_idle	Maximum number of seconds that a worker can idle since the completion of the last task. If exceeded, the worker exits. But the timer does not launch until tasks_timers tasks have completed. See the idletime argument of mirai::daemon(). crew does not excel with perfectly transient workers because it does not micromanage the assignment of tasks to workers, so please allow enough idle time for a new worker to be delegated a new task.
seconds_wall	Soft wall time in seconds. The timer does not launch until tasks_timers tasks have completed. See the walltime argument of mirai::daemon().
tasks_max	Maximum number of tasks that a worker will do before exiting. See the maxtasks argument of mirai::daemon(). crew does not excel with perfectly transient workers because it does not micromanage the assignment of tasks to workers, it is recommended to set tasks_max to a value greater than 1.
tasks_timers	Number of tasks to do before activating the timers for seconds_idle and seconds_wall. See the timerstart argument of mirai::daemon().
reset_globals	Deprecated on 2025-05-30 (crew version 1.1.2.9004). Please use the reset_globals option of crew_controller() instead.
reset_packages	Deprecated on 2025-05-30 (crew version 1.1.2.9004). Please use the reset_packages option of crew_controller() instead.
reset_options	Deprecated on 2025-05-30 (crew version 1.1.2.9004). Please use the reset_options option of crew_controller() instead.
garbage_collection	Deprecated on 2025-05-30 (crew version 1.1.2.9004). Please use the garbage_collection option of crew_controller() instead.
crashes_error	Deprecated on 2025-01-13 (crew version 0.10.2.9002).
tls	A TLS configuration object from crew_tls().
r_arguments	Optional character vector of command line arguments to pass to Rscript (non-Windows) or Rscript.exe (Windows) when starting a worker. Example: r_arguments = c("--vanilla", "--max-connections=32").
options_metrics	Either NULL to opt out of resource metric logging for workers, or an object from crew_options_metrics() to enable and configure resource metric logging for workers. For resource logging to run, the autometric R package version 0.1.0 or higher must be installed.
options_cluster	List of options from a crew.cluster options function such as crew_options_slurm(). Make sure the cluster types of the launcher and options function match.
verbose	Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.
command_submit	Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.
command_terminate	Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.
command_delete	Deprecated on 2024-01-08 (version 0.1.4.9001). Use command_terminate instead.
script_directory	Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.
script_lines	Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.

Details

This abstract class is used to develop specific launcher classes for specific computing platforms.

Attribution

The template files at https://github.com/mschubert/clustermq/tree/master/inst informed the development of the crew launcher plugins in crew.cluster, and we would like to thank Michael Schubert for developing clustermq and releasing it under the permissive Apache License 2.0. See the NOTICE and README.md files in the crew.cluster source code for additional attribution.

See Also

Other cluster: crew_class_launcher_cluster, crew_class_monitor_cluster, crew_monitor_cluster(), crew_options_cluster()

crew.cluster documentation built on June 9, 2025, 5:08 p.m.