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# DiDa.jl — simple work with distributed data
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This packages provides a relatively simple Distributed Data manipulation and
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processing routines for Julia.
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This packages provides simple Distributed Data manipulation and processing
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routines for Julia.
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The design of the package and data manipulation approach is deliberately
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"imperative" and "hands-on", to allow as much user influence on the actual way
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the data are moved and stored in the cluster as possible. It uses the
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`Distributed` package and its infrastructure of workers, and provides a few
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very basic primitives that lightly wrap the `Distributed` package functions
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`remotecall` and `fetch`.
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the data are moved and stored in the cluster as possible. It is based on the
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[`Distributed`](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Distributed/) package
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and its infrastructure of remote workers. The basic `Distributed` package
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functions `remotecall` and `fetch` are then wrapper (very lightly) to create a
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simple yet powerful data manipulation interface.
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There are also various extra functions to easily run distributed data
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transformations, MapReduce-style algorithms, store and load the data on worker
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local storage (e.g. to prevent memory exhaustion) and others.
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transformations, MapReduce-style algorithms, store and load the data remotely
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on worker-local storage (e.g. to prevent memory exhaustion) and others.
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To start quickly, you can read the tutorial:
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