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Background<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Running R code in parallel can be very useful in speeding up performance. Basically, parallelization allows you to run multiple processes in your code simultaneously, rather than than iterating over a list one element at a time, or running a single process at a time. Thankfully, running R code in parallel is relatively simple using the parallel<\/strong> package. This package provides parallelized versions of sapply<\/em>, lapply<\/em>, and rapply<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallelizing code works best when you need to call a function or perform an operation on different elements of a list or vector when doing so on any particular element of the list (or vector) has no impact on the evaluation of any other element. This could be running a large number of models across different elements of a list, scraping data from many webpages, or a host of other activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Testing for Primes in Parallel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the example below, we\u2019re going to use the parallel<\/strong> package to loop over 1 million integers to test whether each of them is a prime (or not). If you were doing this without the parallel<\/em> package, you might try to speed up the operation by using sapply<\/em> (rather than a for loop). This is fine, but the drawback is that sapply<\/em> will only be able to test each number in the set one at a time. Using the parallelized version of sapply<\/em>, called parSapply<\/em> in the parallel<\/strong> package, we can test multiple numbers simulatenously for primality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

# load parallel package\nrequire(parallel)\n \n# define function to test whether an number is prime\nis_prime <- function(num)\n{\n    # if input equals 2 or 3, then we know it's prime\n    if(num == 2 | num == 3) \n      return(TRUE)\n    # if input equals 1, then we know it's not prime\n    if(num == 1) \n      return(FALSE)\n   \n    # else if num is greater than 2\n    # and divisible by 2, then can't be even\n    if(num %% 2 == 0) \n      return(FALSE)\n   \n    # else use algorithm to figure out\n    # what factors, if any, input has\n     \n    # get square root of num, rounded down\n    root <- floor(sqrt(num))\n     \n    # try to divide each odd number up to root\n    # into num; if any leave a remainder of zero,\n    # then we know num is not prime\n    for(elt in seq(5,root))\n    {\n        if (num %% elt == 0)\n          return(FALSE)\n       \n    }\n    # otherwise, num has no divisors except 1 and itself\n    # thus, num must be prime\n    return(TRUE)\n   \n}\n \n# get random sample of 1 million integers from integers between 1 and \n# 10 million\n# set seed so the random sample will be the same every time\nset.seed(2)\nsample_numbers <- sample(10000000, 1000000)\n \n \n# do a couple checks of function\nis_prime(17) # 17 is prime\n \nis_prime(323) # 323 = 17 * 19; not prime\n \n# create cluster object\ncl <- makeCluster(3)\n \n# test each number in sample_numbers for primality\nresults <- parSapply(cl , sample_numbers , is_prime)\n \n# close\nstopCluster(cl)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The main piece of the code above is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
# create cluster object\ncl <- makeCluster(3)\n \n# test each number in sample_numbers for primality\nresults <- parSapply(cl , sample_numbers , is_prime)\n \n# close cluster object\nstopCluster(cl)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The makeCluster<\/em> function creates a cluster of R engines to run code in parallel. In other words, calling makeCluster<\/em> creates multiple instances of R. Passing the number 3 as input to this function means three separate instances of R will be created. If you\u2019re running on Windows, you can see these instances by looking at running processes in the Task Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After this cluster is created, we call parSapply<\/em>, which works almost exactly like sapply<\/em>, except that instead of looping over each element in the vector, sample_numbers<\/em>, one at a time, it uses the cluster of R instances to test multiple numbers in the vector for primality simultaneously. As you\u2019ll see a little bit later, this saves a nice chunk of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once our operation is done, we close the cluster object using the stopCluster<\/em> function. This is important to do each time you use the parallel<\/strong> package; otherwise you could end up with lots of R instances on your machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How fast is running R code in parallel?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Alright, so let\u2019s test how much time we can save by parallelizing our code. We\u2019ll start by running the same is_prime<\/em> function above on the same list of 1 million integers using regular sapply<\/em> \u2014 so no parallelization. We will time the operational execution by using R\u2019s builtin function, proc.time<\/em>, before and after we run sapply<\/em>; this gives us a time stamp at the start of the code run and at the end, so we can subtract these to see how much time it took for our code to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
start <- proc.time()\nresults <- sapply(sample_numbers , is_prime)\nend <- proc.time()\n \nprint(end - start) # 125.34<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So the code takes 125.34 seconds to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
start <- proc.time()\ncl <- makeCluster(2)\nresults <- parSapply(cl , sample_numbers , is_prime)\nstopCluster(cl)\n \nend <- proc.time()\n \nprint(end - start) # 70.01<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
As you can see, using just two cores has lessened the amount of run time down to 70.01 seconds! What if we use three cores, like in our initial example?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
start <- proc.time()\ncl <- makeCluster(3)\nresults <- parSapply(cl , sample_numbers , is_prime)\nstopCluster(cl)\n \nend <- proc.time()\n \nprint(end - start) # 47.81<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Using three cores runs our process in 47.81 seconds, which is much faster than using regular sapply<\/em>. The exact amount of time you\u2019ll save using parallelization will vary depending upon what operations you\u2019re performing, and on the processor speed of the machine you\u2019re working on, but in general, parallelization can definitely increase efficiency in your code. Creating a cluster of R processes, as well as merging together results from those instances, does take some amount of time. This means that parallelizing code over a small list or vector may not be worth it if the computation involved is not very intensive. However, in the case above of involving a larger vector of numbers, parallelization helps immensely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How many parallelized instances should we use?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Above, we tested using 2 and 3 cores, respectively. But why not some other amount? The number of cores we should use is related to the number of cores on your machine. A good rule of thumb is to generally not exceed this number. There are exceptions, but often, creating more processes than cores will end up slowing down a computation, rather than increasing the speed. This has to do with how an operating system handles multiprocessing. For a more detailed explanation, see this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To figure out how many cores your machine has, you can run the detectCores<\/em> function from the parallel<\/strong> package:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
detectCores()<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You may also want to balance the number of cores you use with other computations or applications you have running on your machine simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s the end for this post. Have fun coding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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