make_cluster: Make Mirai Cluster

In mirai: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R

Make Mirai Cluster

Description

make_cluster creates a cluster of type 'miraiCluster', which may be used as a cluster object for any function in the parallel base package such as parallel::clusterApply() or parallel::parLapply().

stop_cluster stops a cluster created by make_cluster.

Usage

make_cluster(n, url = NULL, remote = NULL, ...)

stop_cluster(cl)

Arguments

n	(integer) number of nodes. Launched locally unless url is supplied.
url	(character) host URL for remote nodes to dial into, e.g. 'tcp://10.75.37.40:5555'. Use 'tls+tcp://' for secure TLS.
remote	(configuration) for launching remote nodes, generated by ssh_config(), cluster_config(), or remote_config().
...	(daemons arguments) passed to daemons().
cl	(miraiCluster) cluster to stop.

Details

For R version 4.5 or newer, parallel::makeCluster() specifying type = "MIRAI" is equivalent to this function.

Value

For make_cluster: An object of class 'miraiCluster' and 'cluster'. Each 'miraiCluster' has an automatically assigned ID and n nodes of class 'miraiNode'. If url is supplied but not remote, the shell commands for deployment of nodes on remote resources are printed to the console.

For stop_cluster: invisible NULL.

Remote Nodes

Specify url and n to set up a host connection for remote nodes to dial into. n defaults to one if not specified.

Also specify remote to launch the nodes using a configuration generated by remote_config() or ssh_config(). In this case, the number of nodes is inferred from the configuration provided and n is disregarded.

If remote is not supplied, the shell commands for deploying nodes manually on remote resources are automatically printed to the console.

launch_remote() may be called at any time on a 'miraiCluster' to return the shell commands for deployment of all nodes, or on a 'miraiNode' to return the command for a single node.

Errors

Errors are thrown by the parallel package mechanism if one or more nodes failed (quit unexpectedly). The returned 'errorValue' is 19 (Connection reset). Other types of error, e.g. in evaluation, result in the usual 'miraiError' being returned.

Note

The default behaviour of clusters created by this function is designed to map as closely as possible to clusters created by the parallel package. However, ... arguments are passed to daemons() for additional customisation, and not all combinations may be supported by parallel functions.

Examples

cl <- make_cluster(2)
cl
cl[[1L]]

Sys.sleep(0.5)
status(cl)

stop_cluster(cl)

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