Questions tagged [parallelization]
Questions on parallel computing in Mathematica.
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Mma 10: Half the parallel power (Macs)?
Here is a comparison of the parallel kernels launched under Mathematica under v9 and v10, on the same identical current 2014 R2-D2 Mac Pro ...
[ Update: Valerio has commented that the same issue ...
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Status of all Evaluators?
Since I have 4 cores on my machine I typically have 4 notebooks open each with their own kernel evaluator. I'd like to construct a dynamic pane similar to the parallel kernels status window:
But that ...
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Mathematica HPC on AWS vs. Azure
I am looking for advice on deploying Mathematica for HPC in an on-demand cloud environment. I occasionally have Mathematica projects that require parallel computing and large amounts of RAM. These ...
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Threads vs Cores: How many kernels need to launch in parallel Mathematica?
I have a dual-core intel machine. I would like to test how many parallel local kernels should be launch to get the optimized performance. Knowing that the HyperThreading technology of Intel could run ...
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ParallelTable kernels die - maybe Mathlink timeout?
I am new to parallel computing in Mathematica. I am using
LaunchKernels[16]
ParallelTable[]
to parallelize calculations. The ParallelTable consists of approx ...
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What's with the weird HoldRest Attribute of ParallelMap?
Bug introduced in 10.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.1
I have noticed some odd behavior of ParallelMap: When the list, that is mapped over, is not inserted ...
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ParallelSubmit executes only on one kernel
I'm trying to use Parallesubmit to run some calculations in parallel, but it looks like all the calculations are evaluated at one kernel. Consider this example:
<...
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WolframScript never exits (v11 only)
after updating to version 11, I came across a problem with the execution of package files via bash.
The WolframScript program runs the entire code, but frequently it does not exit properly and as a ...
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Bug: Calling `SetSharedVariable` while kernels are running hangs them up/crashes them
Bug introduced in 9.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.0.1 or later
Start a fresh kernel Quit, and maybe launch ...
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How to force the compilation language to be C++ (not C) in CreateExecutable or CreateLibrary
I'm trying to speed up a section of a Mathematica 9.0.1 notebook by performing some calculations in C++ with the Cilk Plus and Threading Building Blocks tools available for the Intel C++ 14.0 compiler ...
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Parallelizing is much slower than single kernel evaluation?
Starting with a vector of matrices, tVec, I would like to parallelize the multiplication of each element with the same matrix ...
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Optimize Use of PeakDetect in Mathematica
I am quite new to Mathematica and I am looking for some advice in order to improve and optimize my code.
Here is what I am trying to do:
Open a stream
Read the stream line by line and store it in "...
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Random number generation within Compile and Parallelization->True
According to this thread RandomChoice is a compilable function.
I use it to generate random numbers in a compiled function with parallelization enabled.
I wrote ...
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Efficient Parallelization of PermutationReplace
I am generating the orbit of a partition of a set of size $n$ under the action of the symmetric group $S_n$. PermutationReplace won't allow itself to be parallelized. Why is this ? Is it because the ...
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ParallelTable slow down, Region functions
I am experiencing speed issues with ParallelTable. There are a few related problems on SX posted here and here, but no resolution. The various respondents to those ...
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The change of precision doesn't work in ParallelDo. Is it a bug in Parallel?
Cross-post: http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/2075301703219376588.html
Input:
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Mathematica + RasPi + Parallela = Kaboom?
Is it possible to use the Parallela computing platform to enhance Mathematica computing on a Raspberry Pi?
It's not at all clear to me how to interface the two boards (here it says it's done via ...
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Death of parallel sub-kernels
EDIT : Finally, the new Mathematica 10.0 seems to fix it.
I have a little parallelization problem. I wrote a code to generate a quasicrystal by dynamical generation. Here the code:
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Raster with ColorFunction is blank when Dynamic Updating is disabled
UPDATE
Today I was having these WaveletScalogram problems again. I think this is ultimately some kind of interaction issue with Dynamic. I have narrowed it down to ...
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Can't Launch Kernels, Updating from Wolfram Research Server
So, I'm running Mathematica on an HPC cluster using the math module command line interface. I'm trying to figure out some problems with attempting to parallelize my ...
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How to do parallel computation when using LinearProgramming function?
I have a LP problem which contains 2n+3 variables with 4n+6 inequality constraints. I was trying to use Mathematica's LinearProgramming function. When n is small, like less than 30, it gives outcome ...
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How to speed up code in ParallelDo loops?
I have a piece of code that I'm trying to run in a ParallelDo over 32 kernels. Using a normal Do loop in a kernel Mathematica ...
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Problem with Parallelization when using Packages
I tried to find a solution to my problem in several answers posted in MSE but due to lack of my knowledge on parallelization territory, I couldn't figure out solution to my problem.
I have a big code ...
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Is there a clean way to parallelize multi-index tables?
The documentation of ParallelTable indicates that if you want to parallelize the evaluation of a table of more than one dimension, such as
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Improving the speed of an optimization algorithm via compilation and parallellization
I have written an implementation of eight variants of the PSO-algorithm and I want to test them over a set of test functions. I am using parallelization as it improves the speed a lot and I have also, ...
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Parallel Kernels and Hyperthreading
I am using Eigenvalues a large number of times on a machine with 8 cores. When I run Eigenvalues one time without any parallel ...
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ParallelSubmit and WaitNext: check if a job is done before calling WaitNext
Say I process something with ParallelSubmit:
LaunchKernels[]
job = ParallelSubmit[1 + 2]
Parallel`Developer`QueueRun[]
Then, I will use ...
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Parallel Kernel Status
For parallel computing, the window Parallel Kernel Status shows some information on the subkernels. I can use two kernels, and which each of them I can do parallel computations. However, it seems that ...
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OpenCL vs. CUDA with Mathematica
I am thinking about using GPU programming with Mathematica using a MacBook Pro with a NVIDIA GPU. At this page, the Mathematica documentation says "Programming OpenCL in the Wolfram Language is simple ...
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ParallelTable and expensive functions
I would like to build up a 2D-Table using ParallelTable as follows
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LibraryLink parallel performance
I'm trying to use a LibraryLink function in parallel. It is an embarrassingly parallel problem, so that no dependency between those parallel tasks. However I can only get the parallel efficiency about ...
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Remote kernel shuts down after several seconds
I have Mathematica 9 installed on two Windows Server 2008 R2 machines. Now i want to try using one of them as a frontend with local kernels and the other one for remote kernels.
OpenSSH 6.5 for ...
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How can you link Parallel Mapping and Error tracking
Following this question and the comments made, together with the information in this question, the following code allows error tracking and debugging very nicely.
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Mathlink and multithreading
In order to make my computations faster I have developed a C/C++ application calling Mathematica kernel and performing many operations using Mathematica functions for equation solving.
Now I want to ...
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ParallelDo and Reap/Sow in combination fails
I just realized the following problem. I tried to speed up a program that reads hundreds of files each of size up to 200+ MB and processes them, therefore I changed a ...
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Parallel evaluation of RandomVariate for an InterpolatingFunction
I need to generate a lot of point according to a given distribution. I don't have an analytic form of this distribution so I am using an InterpolatingFunction of ~100 points computed numerically. I ...
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How can I prevent ParallelTable[] from freezing?
I have spent some time trying to figure this out.
I have a function that appears to be the reason my program is freezing. I am using both MemoryConstrained[] and <...
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Getting a Stack Trace on parallel execution
I find debugging very difficult in Mathematica, perhaps because I am unfamiliar with the appropriate tools. Ideally, I would like a "break on error" like Matlab with step control, however for the ...
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Language`ExpressionStore and ParallelMap
Is there a way to access NewExpressionStore from within a parallelized calculation? I have tried variations of
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Too many scheduled tasks (with parallelization)
I have a program that makes many http requests (gathering data from APIs), and computes on that data. Speed is a priority and using the most up to date data in the computations is a priority. ...
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Circumvent DistributeDefinitions
I have a code in which I create a few very large matrices with which I need to do long calculations. I have parallelised my code and, in the end, the thing that slows me the most is the time it takes ...
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ParallelDo with NotebookDirectory[]
I have a main directory with subdirectories numbered (1, 2, 3, ...). In each folder there is an exe file. I execute this code:
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“ParallelDo” does not calculate the function well
Now, I'm solving utility maximization problem.
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Get::noopen: Cannot open CloudObjectLoader` error when running Mathematica on remote cluster
I have been running Mathematica on a remote cluster for quite sometime. Recently, any jobs that call LaunchKernels[] for parallelization return the error
Get::...
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Wolfram math on windows using PBSPro cluster
A user wishes to use math application running on our PBSPpro cluster.
Our cluster is accessible to linux users, running qsub to submit their jobs.
We have math10.4 for our cluster users, with ...
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Parallelize Dateset query
I would like to evaluate a Dataset query in parallel, my latest approach being:
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Where do DistributeDefinitions and ParallelNeeds put their definitions for newly-launched kernels to find
I'm sorry to keep banging on the definition distribution bell, but here is another (hopefully well-focused enough) question on that vein.
If one is trying to distribute the definitions in a package ...
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Why is a LibraryLink function, which returns a list, not parallelizing with ParallelTable?
First example: librarylink function return a list of two element
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