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Chuck37
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Sharing big data across parfor or spmd
Posted:
Dec 11, 2012 1:09 PM
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I have a big piece of never changing data that I'd like to be used by all the workers in a parallel setting. Since I'm only working with local workers, I don't understand why I have to eat the huge latency associated with transferring the data to workers each time the parfor loop is called. Can someone explain?
I tried to use spmd to send data once at the beginning and have it stay there, but the data is kind of big (~2 GB going to 10 workers), and I got "error during serialization" anyway. Is there a solution to this problem with local workers where they can all access the data from the same memory? Accesses are infrequent, so simultaneous access shouldn't cause a big slowdown.
Any ideas would be great.
My setup is something like this by the way:
M = big data;
for x = 1:m
stuff
parfor y = 1:n
a(y) = function(M,a(y));
end
stuff
end
Parfor is presently worse than 'for' because of the overhead from sending M every time.
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