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Julia: High Performance Programming
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Julia: High Performance Programming

by Ivo Balbaert, Avik Sengupta, Malcolm Sherrington
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
697 pages
14h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Shared arrays

Distributed arrays are a fully generic solution that scales across many networked hosts in order to work on data that cannot fit in the memory of a single machine. However, in many circumstances, although the data does fit in the memory, we want multiple Julia processes to improve throughput by fully utilizing all the cores in a machine. In this situation, shared arrays are useful to get different Julia processes operating on the same data.

Shared arrays, as the name suggests, are arrays that are shared across multiple Julia processes on the same machine.

Constructing SharedArray requires specifying its type, its dimensions, and the list of process IDs that will have access to the array, as follows:

S=SharedArray( Float64, (100, 100, ...
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