parallel programing in r - revolutions

ParallelCompu,nginR

BioC2009,Sea7le,July2009

WhoareREvolu,onCompu,ng?

REvolu,onCompu,ng:–  Isacommercialopen‐sourcecompany,foundedin2007–  ProvidesservicesandproductsbasedonR

•  The“RedHat”®forR–  Producesfreeandsubscrip,on‐basedhigh‐performance,enhanceddistribu,onsofR

–  Offerssupport,training,valida,onandotherservicesaroundR

–  Hasexper,seinhigh‐performanceanddistributedcompu,ng

–  IsafinancialandtechnicalcontributortotheRcommunity–  Hasopera,onsinNewHaven,Sea7le,andSanFrancisco

The People of REvolution

•  Mar$nSchultz,ChiefScien,ficOfficer(ArthurKWatsonProfessorofComputerScience,YaleUniversity;founderofScien,ficCompu,ngAssociates;researchinalgorithmdesign,parallelprogrammingenvironmentsandarchitectures)

•  DavidSmith,DirectorofCommunity&Rblogger(co‐authorofAnIntroduc+ontoR,ESS)

•  BryanLewis,AmbassadorofCool(akaDirectorofSystemsEngineering;appliedmathinterestsinnumericalanalysisofinverseproblems;formerCEOofRocketcalc)

•  DaneseCooper,OpenSourceDiva(boardofdirectors,OpenSourceIni,a,ve;member,ApacheSo`wareFounda,on;advisoryboard,Mozilla.org;previouslyseniordirector,opensourcestrategiesatIntelandSun)

•  SteveWeston,SeniorResearchScien,st,DirectorofEngineering(REvolu,onandScien,ficCompu,ngAssociates;developmentofNetWorkSpaces–parallelprogrammingwithR,Python,Ruby,andMatlab–NetworkLinda,Paradise,andPiranha).

•  JayEmerson,DeptSta,s,cs,YaleUniversity(authorofbigmemorypackage)

WhatisREvolu,onR?

•  REvolu,onRisthefreedistribu,onofR–  Op,mizedforspeed–  Usesmul,pleCPUs/coresforperformance–  ForWindowsandMacOS(soon:Ubuntu)–  Supportviacommunityforums

•  REvolu,onREnterpriseisourenhanced,subscrip,on‐onlydistribu,onofR–  Telephone/emailsupportfromrealRexperts–  Suitableforuseinregulated/validatedenvironments–  IncludesproprietaryParallelRpackagesforreliabledistributedcompu,ngwithR

•  onclustersorinthecloud–  Supportedon64‐bitWindows,Linux

Suppor,ngtheRCommunity

Weareanopensourcecompanysuppor,ngtheRcommunity:

•  BenefactorofRFounda$on•  FinancialsupporterofRconferencesandusergroups•  Newfunc$onalitydevelopedincoreRtocontributedunderGPL

•  64‐bitWindowssupport•  Step‐debuggingsupport

•  REvangelism

“Revolu$ons”Blog:blog.revolu,on‐compu,ng.comDailyNewsaboutR,sta1s1cs,andopen‐source

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Intoday’slab:

•  Introduc,ontoParallelProcessing•  Mul,‐ThreadedProcessing

– Compu,ngontheGPU

•  Iterators•  Theforeachloop•  Usingmul,plecores:SMP

•  ClusterCompu,ng

•  Mul,‐Stratumparallelism

•  Q&A/Exercises6

GemngStarted

•  R2.10.x,and2.9.xonWindows:install.packages("foreach",type="source")

install.packages("iterators",type="source")

•  R2.9.x,Mac/Linuxonly:install.packages("doMC")

require(doMC)

•  Windows/Mac:–  InstallREvolu,onREnterprise2.0(R2.7.2)require(doNWS)

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Introduc,ontoParallelProcessing

WithanasidetoHigh‐PerformanceCompu,ng

HPCo`enmeansefficientlyexploi,ngspecializedhardware

ImagescopyrightCray,Xlinix,NVIDIAfromupper‐left,clockwise.

WhatisHigh‐PerformanceCompu,ng(HPC)?

Imagefromncbr.sdsc.edu

WhatisHigh‐PerformanceCompu,ng(HPC)?

•  Thesedays,HPCisfrequentlyassociatedwithCOTS*clustercompu,ngandwithSIMDvectoriza,onandpipelining(GPUs)

*Commodity,offtheshelf

•  New:cloudcompu,ng

•  HPCiso`enconcernedwithmul,‐processing(parallel

processing),thecoördina,onof

mul,ple,simultaneously

running(sub)programs

–  Threads

–  Processes

–  Clusters

ImageCopyrightLawrenceLivermoreNationalLab

WhatisHigh‐PerformanceCompu,ng(HPC)?

HPCo`eninvolveseffec,velymanaginghugedatasets

–  Parallelfilesystems(GPFS,PVFS2,Lustre,GFS2,S3…)

–  Paralleldataopera,ons(map‐reduce)

–  Workingwithhigh‐performancedatabases

–  bigmemorypackageinR

ImageCopyrightHP(amulti‐petabytestoragesystem)

WhatisHigh‐PerformanceCompu,ng(HPC)?

ATaxonomyofParallelProcessing

•  Mul$‐node/cluster/cloudcompu$ng(heavyweightprocesses)–  Memorydistributedacrossnetwork–  Examples:foreach,SNOW,Rmpi,batchprocessing

•  Mul$‐core/mul$‐processorcompu$ng(heavyweightprocesses)–  SMP:SymmetricMul,‐Processing–  Independentmemoryinsharedspace–  Naturallyscalestomul,‐nodeprocessing–  Examples:mul,core(Windows/Unix),foreach

•  Mul$‐threadedprocessing(lightweightprocesses)–  Usuallysharedmemory–  Hardertoscaleoutacrossnetworks–  Examples:threadedlinear‐algebralibrariesforR(ATLAS,MKL);GPU

processors(CUDA/NVIDIA;ct/INTEL)

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Mul,‐ThreadedProcessing

Whatisthreadedprogramming?

•  Athreadisakindofprocessthatsharesaddressspacewithitsparentprocess

•  Created,destroyed,managedandsynchronizedinCcode– POSIXthreads– OpenMPthreads

•  Fast,butdifficulttoprogram– Easytooverwritevariables– Needtoworryaboutsynchroniza,on

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Exploi,ngthreadswithR

•  RlinkstoBLAS(BasicLinearAlgebraSubprograms)librariesforefficientvector/matrixopera,ons

•  Linux:NeedtocompileandlinkwiththreadedBLAS(ATLAS)

•  Windows/Mac:REvolu,onRlinkedtoIntelMKLlibraries,usesasmanythreadsascores– Manyhigher‐levelopera,onsop,mizedaswell

•  MacOS:CRANbinaryusesveclibBLAS–  threaded,pre7ygoodperformance

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REvolution R SVD Performance

Exampledatamatrix150,000x500fast.svd

Quad‐coreIntelCore2CPU,WindowsVista64‐bitWorkstation

Revolu,onRPerformance

Mul,‐ThreadedProcessing

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GPUProgramming

WhatisaGPU?

•  Dedicatedprocessingchip(orcard)dedicatedtofastfloa,ng‐pointopera,ons– Originallyfor3‐Dgraphicscalcula,ons

•  Highlyparallel:100’sofprocessorsonasinglechip,capableofrunning1000’softhreads

•  Usuallyincludesdedicatedhigh‐speedRAM,accessibleonlybyGPU– Needtotransferdatain/out

•  ProgrammeddirectlyusingcustomCdialect/compilers

•  >90%ofnewdesktops/laptopshaveanintegratedGPU

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GeForce8800GT

•  LaunchedOct29,2007•  512Mbof256‐bitmemory•  128processors•  512simultaneousthreads•  <$200

•  DownloadNVIDIACUDATools:– h7p://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html

•  Tutorial– h7p://www.ddj.com/architect/207200659

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PerformanceComparison

Method Time(seconds)

BaseRconvolvefunc,on 9.89

AMDACML 6.29

FFTW(8threads) 3.75

CUDAonGeForce8800GT 1.88(singleprecision)

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  Convolve2vectorsoflength2^22  60Mbofdata

  Quaddual‐coreprocessor/GPU

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IntroducingIterators

ThoughtExperiment:DrawingCards

•  Youaretheteacherof10grade‐schoolpupils.•  Classproject:draweachofthe52playingcardsasaposter.

•  Eachchildhassuppliesofposterpaperandcrayons,butrequiresareferencecardtocopy.

•  Howtoorganizethepupils?

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Iterators

> require(iterators) •  Generalizedloopvariable•  Valueneednotbeatomic

– Rowofamatrix– Randomdataset– Chunkofadatafile– Recordfromadatabase

•  Createwith:iter •  Getvalueswith:nextElem •  Usedasindexingargumentwithforeach

Iteratorsarememoryfriendly

•  Allowdatatobesplitintomanageablepiecesonthefly

•  Helpsalleviateproblemswithprocessinglargedatastructures

•  Piecescanbeprocessedinparallel

Iteratorsactasadaptors

•  Allowsyourdatatobeprocessedbyforeachwithoutbeingconverted

•  Caniterateovermatricesanddataframesbyroworbycolumn:

it <- iter(Boston, by="row") nextElem(it)

NumericIterator

> i <- iter(1:3) > nextElem(i) [1] 1

> nextElem(i) [1] 2 > nextElem(i) [1] 3 > nextElem(i) Error: StopIteration

Longsequences

> i <- icount(1e9) > nextElem(i) [1] 1 > nextElem(i) [1] 2 > nextElem(i) [1] 3 > nextElem(i) [1] 4 > nextElem(i) [1] 5

Matrixdimensions

> M <- matrix(1:25,ncol=5) > r <- iter(M,by="row") > nextElem(r) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 6 11 16 21 > nextElem(r) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 2 7 12 17 22 > nextElem(r) [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 3 8 13 18 23

DataFile

> rec <- iread.table("MSFT.csv",sep=",", header=T, row.names=NULL) > nextElem(rec) MSFT.Open MSFT.High MSFT.Low MSFT.Close MSFT.Volume MSFT.Adjusted 1 29.91 30.25 29.4 29.86 76935100 28.73 > nextElem(rec) MSFT.Open MSFT.High MSFT.Low MSFT.Close MSFT.Volume MSFT.Adjusted 1 29.7 29.97 29.44 29.81 45774500 28.68 > nextElem(rec) MSFT.Open MSFT.High MSFT.Low MSFT.Close MSFT.Volume MSFT.Adjusted 1 29.63 29.75 29.45 29.64 44607200 28.52 > nextElem(rec) MSFT.Open MSFT.High MSFT.Low MSFT.Close MSFT.Volume MSFT.Adjusted 1 29.65 30.1 29.53 29.93 50220200 28.8

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Database

> library(RSQLite) > m <- dbDriver('SQLite') > con <- dbConnect(m, dbname="arrests") > it <- iquery(con, 'select * from USArrests', n=10) > nextElem(it) Murder Assault UrbanPop Rape Alabama 13.2 236 58 21.2 Alaska 10.0 263 48 44.5 Arizona 8.1 294 80 31.0 Arkansas 8.8 190 50 19.5 California 9.0 276 91 40.6 Colorado 7.9 204 78 38.7 Connecticut 3.3 110 77 11.1 Delaware 5.9 238 72 15.8 Florida 15.4 335 80 31.9 Georgia 17.4 211 60 25.8

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Infinite&Irregularsequences

iprime <- function() { lastPrime <- 1 nextEl <- function() { lastPrime <<- as.numeric(nextprime(lastPrime)) lastPrime } it <- list(nextElem=nextEl) class(it) <- c('abstractiter','iter') it}

> require(gmp) > p <- iprime() > nextElem(p) [1] 2 > nextElem(p) [1] 3

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Loopingwithforeach

Loopingwithforeach

foreach (var=iterator) %dopar% { statements }

  Evaluatestatementsuntiliteratorterminates  statementswillreferencevariablevar   Valuesof{ … }blockcollectedintoalist

  Runssequentially(bydefault)(orforcewith%do% )

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> foreach (j=1:4) %dopar% sqrt (j)

[[1]] [1] 1

[[2]] [1] 1.414214

[[3]] [1] 1.732051

[[4]] [1] 2

Warning message: executing %dopar% sequentially: no parallel backend registered

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CombiningResults> foreach(j=1:4, .combine=c) %dopar% sqrt(j) [1] 1.000000 1.414214 1.732051 2.000000

> foreach(j=1:4, .combine='+’, .inorder=FALSE) %dopar% sqrt(j)

[1] 6.146264

  Whenorderofevaluationisunimportant,use.inorder=FALSE

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Referencingglobalvariables> z <- 2 > f <- function (x) sqrt (x + z)

> foreach (j=1:4, .combine='+') %dopar% f(j)

[1] 8.417609

  foreachautomaticallyinspectscodeandensuresunboundobjectsarepropagatedtotheevaluationenvironment

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Nestedforeachexecu,on

•  foreach opera,onscanbenestedusing%:%operator

•  Allowsparallelexecu,onacrossmul,pleloopslevels,“unrolling”theinnerloops

foreach(i=1:3, .combine=cbind) %:% foreach(j=1:3, .combine=c) %dopar% (i + j)

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Speedingupcodewithforeach

SMPProcessing

Quickreviewofparallelanddistributedcompu,nginR

•  NetWorkSpaces(packagenws;SMP,distributed)–  GPL,alsocommerciallysupportedbyREvolu,onCompu,ng–  Verycross‐pla�orm,distributedshared‐memoryparadigm–  Fault‐tolerant

•  Mul,Core(packagemulticore;SMPonly)–  Linux/MacOS(requiresPOSIX)–  UsesforktocreatenewRprocesses

•  Rmpi(packageRmpi;SMP,distributed)–  Fine‐grainedcontrolallowsveryhigh‐performancecalcula,ons–  Canbetrickytoconfigure–  LimitedWindowsandheterogeneousclustersupport

•  SNOW(packagesnow;SMP,distributed*)–  LimitedWindowssupport(*singlemachineonly)–  Meta‐package:supportsMPI,sockets,NWS,PVM

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Parallelbackendsforforeach

•  %dopar%behaviourdependsoncurrent“registered”parallelbackend

•  Modularparallelbackends

•  registerDoSEQ(default)•  registerDoNWS(NetWorkSpaces)•  registerDoMC(mul,core,MacOS/Windows)

•  FromTerminal/ESSonly!(R.appGUIwillcrash.)•  registerDoSNOW•  registerDoRMPI

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GemngStarted:Mul,‐coreProcessing

•  R2.10.x–waitun,lofficialrelease•  R2.9.x

require(doMC)

registerDoMC(cores=2)

•  REvolu,onREnterpriserequire(doNWS)

s <- sleigh(workerCount=2) registerDoNWS()

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Asimplesimulation:

birthday <- function(n) { ntests <- 1000 pop <- 1:365 anydup <- function(i) any(duplicated( sample(pop, n, replace=TRUE)))

sum(sapply(seq(ntests), anydup)) / ntests }

x <- foreach (j=1:100) %dopar% birthday (j)

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BirthdayExample‐,mings

Backend Time(s)registerDoSEQ() 41sregisterDoMC()#2cores 28sregisterDoNWS()#2workers 26s(*)

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Dual‐core2.4GHzIntelMacBook:

system.time{ x <- foreach (j=1:100) %dopar% birthday (j) } # Elapsed

BirthdaySimula,on:Mul,core/NWS

> x <- foreach (j=1:100) %dopar% birthday (j) > plot(1:100, unlist(x),type="l")

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UsingclusterswithNetworkSpaces

SemngUpaCluster

1.  Iden,fymachinestoformnodesoncluster–  EasiestwithLinux/MacOS

–  PossiblewithWindows

2.  Selectaservermachine–  OKforthisonetobeonWindows

3.  Makesurepasswordlesssshenabledoneachworkernode

–  ssh nodename Revo --versionshouldwork

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Semngupacluster,part2

4.  Logintoserver,startREvolu,onR5.  Createasleigh

require(doNWS) s <- sleigh(nodeList=c( rep("localhost",2), rep("thor",8), rep("loki",4)), launch=sshcmd) registerDoNWS(s)

6.  Useforeachasbefore7.  (op,onal)usejoinSleightoaddnewnodes

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ParallelRandomForest

# a simple parallel random forest

library(randomForest) x <- matrix(runif(500), 100)

y <- gl(2, 50) wc <- 2

n <- ceiling(1000 / wc)

registerDoNWS(s) foreach(ntree=rep(n, wc), .combine=combine,

.packages='randomForest') %dopar% randomForest(x, y, ntree=ntree)

•  Easier: randomShrubberyNWS()

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Conver,ngexis,ngcode

•  Converttheseloopstoforeach:– for:makebodyreturnitera,onvalueand.combine

– apply:useiter(X, by="row”)and.combine •  Oriapply(X,1)

– lapply:useiter(mylist)

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ppiStatsExample

•  Sequen,al:bpMats1 <- lapply(bpList, function(x) { bpMatrix(x, symMat = TRUE, homodimer = FALSE, baitAsPrey = FALSE, unWeighted = FALSE, onlyRecip = FALSE, baitsOnly = FALSE) })

•  Parallel:bpMats1 <- foreach(x=iter(bpList), .packages = "ppiStats") %dopar% { bpMatrix(x, sysMat = TRUE, homodimer = FALSE, baitAsPrey = FALSE, unWeighted = FALSE, onlyRecip = FALSE, baitsOnly = FALSE) }

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ppiStatsExample

•  Sequen,al:bpGraphs <- lapply(bpMats1, function(x) {

genBPGraph(x, directed = TRUE, bp = FALSE)

})

•  Parallel:bpGraph <- foreach(x=iter(bpMat1),

.packages = "ppiStats") %dopar% {

genBPGraph(x, directed = TRUE, bp = FALSE) }

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Excercise

•  Findother“embarassinglyparallel”BioConductorexamples,andconverttoparallelwithforeach.

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Mul,‐StratumParallelism

foreach(iterator)%dopar%{tasks}

foreach…

task task

foreach…

task task

CLUSTER

SMP

Anexampleofexplicitmulti‐stratum||ism

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require ("doNWS") require ("foreach") require ("doMC")

s <- sleigh(nodelist=c(rep("localhost",2), rep("bladeserver",8)) registerDoNWS(s)

foreach (iterator_i, .packages=c("foreach", "doMC"))%dopar% { registerDoMC() foreach (iteratorj_) %dopar% { tasks… } }

Mul,‐stratumtemplate:NWS/Mul,core

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Pi�allstoavoid

•  Sequen,alvsParallelProgramming•  RandomNumberGenera,on

–  library(sprngNWS) –  sleigh(workerCount=8, rngType=‘sprngLFG’)

•  Nodefailure•  CosmicRays

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Conclusions

•  Parallelcompu,ngiseasy!•  Writeloopswithforeach/%dopar%

– Worksfineinasingle‐processorenvironment

– Third‐partyuserscanregisterbackendsformul,processororclusterprocessing

– Speedbenefitswithoutmodifyingcode

•  Easyperformancegainsonmodernlaptops/desktops

•  Expandtoclustersformeatyjobs

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ThankYou!

•  DavidSmith–  david@revolu,on‐compu,ng.com,@revodavid

•  REvolu,onCompu,ng– www.revolu,on‐compu,ng.com

•  Revolu+ons,theRblog– blog.revolu,on‐compu,ng.com

•  Downloads:– Slides:h7p://,nyurl.com/R‐Bioc‐slides– Script:h7p://,nyurl.com/R‐Bioc‐script