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[Maturing] Create an abstract cluster launcher object.

Source: R/crew_launcher_cluster.R
crew_launcher_cluster.Rd

Create an R6 abstract cluster launcher object.

Usage

crew_launcher_cluster(
  name = NULL,
  seconds_interval = 0.5,
  seconds_timeout = 60,
  seconds_launch = 86400,
  seconds_idle = 300,
  seconds_wall = Inf,
  tasks_max = Inf,
  tasks_timers = 0L,
  reset_globals = TRUE,
  reset_packages = FALSE,
  reset_options = FALSE,
  garbage_collection = FALSE,
  crashes_error = 5L,
  tls = crew::crew_tls(mode = "automatic"),
  r_arguments = c("--no-save", "--no-restore"),
  options_metrics = crew::crew_options_metrics(),
  options_cluster = crew.cluster::crew_options_cluster(),
  verbose = NULL,
  command_submit = NULL,
  command_terminate = NULL,
  command_delete = NULL,
  script_directory = NULL,
  script_lines = NULL
)

Arguments

name

Name of the launcher.

seconds_interval

Number of seconds between polling intervals waiting for certain internal synchronous operations to complete, such as checking mirai::status().

seconds_timeout

Number of seconds until timing out while waiting for certain synchronous operations to complete, such as checking mirai::status().

seconds_launch

Seconds of startup time to allow. A worker is unconditionally assumed to be alive from the moment of its launch until seconds_launch seconds later. After seconds_launch seconds, the worker is only considered alive if it is actively connected to its assign websocket.

seconds_idle

Maximum number of seconds that a worker can idle since the completion of the last task. If exceeded, the worker exits. But the timer does not launch until tasks_timers tasks have completed. See the idletime argument of mirai::daemon(). crew does not excel with perfectly transient workers because it does not micromanage the assignment of tasks to workers, so please allow enough idle time for a new worker to be delegated a new task.

seconds_wall

Soft wall time in seconds. The timer does not launch until tasks_timers tasks have completed. See the walltime argument of mirai::daemon().

tasks_max

Maximum number of tasks that a worker will do before exiting. See the maxtasks argument of mirai::daemon(). crew does not excel with perfectly transient workers because it does not micromanage the assignment of tasks to workers, it is recommended to set tasks_max to a value greater than 1.

tasks_timers

Number of tasks to do before activating the timers for seconds_idle and seconds_wall. See the timerstart argument of mirai::daemon().

reset_globals

TRUE to reset global environment variables between tasks, FALSE to leave them alone.

reset_packages

TRUE to unload any packages loaded during a task (runs between each task), FALSE to leave packages alone.

reset_options

TRUE to reset global options to their original state between each task, FALSE otherwise. It is recommended to only set reset_options = TRUE if reset_packages is also TRUE because packages sometimes rely on options they set at loading time.

garbage_collection

TRUE to run garbage collection between tasks, FALSE to skip.

crashes_error

Positive integer scalar. If a worker exits crashes_error times in a row without completing all its assigned tasks, then the launcher throws an informative error. The reason for crashes_error is to avoid an infinite loop where a task crashes a worker (through a segfault, maxing out memory, etc) but the worker always relaunches. To monitor the resources of crew workers, please see https://wlandau.github.io/crew/articles/logging.html.

tls

A TLS configuration object from crew_tls().

r_arguments

Optional character vector of command line arguments to pass to Rscript (non-Windows) or Rscript.exe (Windows) when starting a worker. Example: r_arguments = c("--vanilla", "--max-connections=32").

options_metrics

Either NULL to opt out of resource metric logging for workers, or an object from crew_options_metrics() to enable and configure resource metric logging for workers. For resource logging to run, the autometric R package version 0.1.0 or higher must be installed.

options_cluster

List of options from a crew.cluster options function such as crew_options_slurm(). Make sure the cluster types of the launcher and options function match.

verbose

Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.

command_submit

Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.

command_terminate

Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.

command_delete

Deprecated on 2024-01-08 (version 0.1.4.9001). Use command_terminate instead.

script_directory

Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.

script_lines

Deprecated. Use options_cluster instead.

Details

This abstract class is used to develop specific launcher classes for specific computing platforms.

Attribution

The template files at https://github.com/mschubert/clustermq/tree/master/inst informed the development of the crew launcher plugins in crew.cluster, and we would like to thank Michael Schubert for developing clustermq and releasing it under the permissive Apache License 2.0. See the NOTICE and README.md files in the crew.cluster source code for additional attribution.

See also

Other cluster: crew_class_launcher_cluster, crew_class_monitor_cluster, crew_monitor_cluster(), crew_options_cluster()