Adding locality parameter to python execution interface

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An Asynchronous Distributed C++ Array Processing Toolkit

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Adding locality parameter to python execution interface #1151

Open hkaiser opened 4 years ago

hkaiser commented 4 years ago

flyby: adding sleep primitive

taless474 commented 4 years ago

@hkaiser, are changes on tests/unit/distributed/remote_add.cpp on purpose?

hkaiser commented 4 years ago

@hkaiser, are changes on tests/unit/distributed/remote_add.cpp on purpose?

Uhh, no. No idea how that happened - thanks for noticing.

stevenrbrandt commented 4 years ago

The issue I have is this:

There's no way to send data from one locality to another inside a phylanx function
Arrays created in phylanx functions are deallocated when the function exits
Therefore all distributed array calculations must take place in a context where localities can't exchange data

This situation would be fixed if we had access to a global data structure inside phylanx functions. That way, data could be exchanged between invocations of phylanx functions.