<div dir="ltr">Hi Aaron,<div><br></div><div>Have you looked at the section of the yt documentation on parallelism?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/analyzing/parallel_computation.html">http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/analyzing/parallel_computation.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>yt uses MPI-based parallelism (powered by the mpi4py package). Using this you can iterate over datasets in parallel using `parallel_objects` or `TimeSeriesData.piter()`.</div><div><br></div><div>
I'm not sure whether yt operations are safe when done inside a processing pool like you're trying to do. I think in principle it should work if all of the processors are operating on different datasets but clearly something is breaking somewhere...</div>
<div><br></div><div>In any case, I'd urge you to rewrite your script using yt's native parallelism.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.</div><div><br></div><div>
-Nathan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Wienkers, Aaron F. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wienkers1@llnl.gov" target="_blank">wienkers1@llnl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Ah yes, I meant to include this:</div>
<div> <a href="http://paste.yt-project.org/show/4059/" target="_blank">http://paste.yt-project.org/show/4059/</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:44 PM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [yt-users] Parallel python/yt<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Aaron,
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<div>Could you post a bit more information, perhaps your script? You can use <a href="http://paste.yt-project.org/" target="_blank">http://paste.yt-project.org/</a> or do yt pastebin yourscript.py </div>
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<div>Otherwise, my guess would be that you are attempting to open up the same hdf5 file with multiple threads, which is gaurded against by hdf5.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Wienkers, Aaron F. <span dir="ltr">
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<div> I've been trying to parallelize some of my analysis scripts using multiprocessing pools, but after a few repetitions yt produces the error, "Couldn't figure out output type for ./file_.hdf5" even though it works fine up to that point. It doesn't seem
to have anything to do with my hdf5 file since it works fine serially.</div>
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<div>Just curious if anyone has run into a similar problem in the past.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div> Aaron</div>
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