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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am currently on a project where I have to read, process, aggregate 10 to 12 millions of files for roughly 10 billions lines of data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The files are arranged in roughly 64000 directories, each directory is one client’s data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I have written code importing and “massaging” the data per directory. The code is data.table driven. I am running this on a 24 cores machine with 145 Gb of RAM on a Linux box under RedHat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For testing purpose I have parallelized the code, using the doMC package, runs fine and it seems to be fast. But I haven’t tried to output the resulting files, three per client. A small one, a moderate size one and
a large one, over 500Gb estimated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My question:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">what is the best way to output those files without creating bottlenecks??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I thought of breaking the list of input directories into 24 threads, supplying a list of lists to “foreach” where one of the components of each sub-list would be the name of the output files but I am worried that “write.table”
would take for ever to write this data to disk, one solution would be to use “save” and keep the output data in Rdata format, but that complicates further analysis by other software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Any suggestions???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">By the way “data.table” sure helped so far in processing that data, thanks to the developpers for such an efficient package,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gérald<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">Gerald Jean, M. Sc. en statistiques</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"><br>
Conseiller senior en statistiques<br>
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