Workers

Workers are the simplest, but not least important, piece of the parallel servers in pylm. They are in charge of doing the actual work, since the master server deals with worker management, storing data, and other smaller details.

A worker subclasses pylm.servers.Worker, and defines a set of additional methods that are exposed to the cluster. To configure the worker, only the db_address parameter is needed, since the other sockets that connect to the master are usually configured automatically. However, those arguments are present in case you really need to set them manually.

Another feature of the workers is that they are connected to the key-value store of the Master or the Hub, along with the client. This means that the key-value store can be used to communicate each worker with the client and with the other workers too. The methods to interact with the key-value store are the same as the client’s.