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Worker

Create a Linux-Worker

R6Class to create local and remote linux workers.

An R6Class generator object

nodename: Host name. Set via constructor.
ncpus: Number of CPUs. Set via constructor and defaults to a heuristic which tries to detect the number of CPUs of the machine.
max.load: Maximum load average (of the last 5 min). Set via constructor and defaults to the number of CPUs of the machine.
status: Status of the worker; one of “unknown”, “available”, “max.cpus” and “max.load”.

new(nodename, ncpus, max.load): Constructor.
update(reg): Update the worker status.
list(reg): List running jobs.
start(reg, fn, outfile): Start job collection in file “fn” and output to “outfile”.
kill(reg, batch.id): Kill job matching the “batch.id”.

## Not run: 
# create a worker for the local machine and use 4 CPUs.
Worker$new("localhost", ncpus = 4)

## End(Not run)

Tools for Computation on Batch Systems

v0.9.15

LGPL-3

Authors

Michel Lang [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-0393>), Bernd Bischl [aut], Dirk Surmann [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-137X>)

Initial release