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Objective

This library is an extension of PyLops for distributed operators.

As much as numpy and scipy lie at the core of the parent project PyLops, PyLops-distributed heavily builds on top of Dask, a Python library for distributed computing.

Doing so, linear operators can be distributed across several processes on a single node or even across multiple nodes. Their forward and adjoint are first lazily built as directed acyclic graphs and evaluated only when requested by the user (or automatically within one of our solvers).

Here is a simple example showing how a diagonal operator can be created, applied and inverted using PyLops:

import numpy as np
from pylops import Diagonal

n = 10
x = np.ones(n)
d = np.arange(n) + 1

Dop = Diagonal(d)

# y = Dx
y = Dop*x
# x = D'y
xadj = Dop.H*y
# xinv = D^-1 y
xinv = Dop / y

and similarly using PyLops-distributed:

import numpy as np
import dask.array as da
import pylops_distributed
from pylops_distributed import Diagonal

# set-up client
client = pylops_distributed.utils.backend.dask()

n = 10
x = da.ones(n, chunks=(n//2,))
d = da.from_array(np.arange(n) + 1, chunks=(n//2, n//2))

Dop = Diagonal(d)

# y = Dx
y = Dop*x
# x = D'y
xadj = Dop.H*y
# xinv = D^-1 y
xinv = Dop / y

da.compute((y, xadj, xinv))
client.close()

It is worth noticing two things at this point:

• in this specific case we did not even need to reimplement the Derivative operator. Calling numpy operations as methods (e.g., x.sum()) instead of functions (e.g., np.sum(x)) makes it automatic for our operator to act as a distributed operator when a dask array is provided instead. Unfortunately not all numpy functions are also implemented as methods: in those cases we reimplement the operator directly within PyLops-distributed.
• Using * and .H* is still possible also within PyLops-distributed, however when initializing an operator we will need to decide whether we want to simply create dask graph or also evaluation. This gives flexibility as we can decide if and when apply evaluation using the compute method on a dask array of choice.

Getting started

You need Python 3.5 or greater.

From PyPi

Coming soon...

From Github

You can also directly install from the master node

pip install https://git@github.com/PyLops/pylops-distributed.git@master

Contributing

Feel like contributing to the project? Adding new operators or tutorial?

Follow the instructions from PyLops official documentation.

Documentation

The official documentation of PyLops-distributed is available here.

Moreover, if you have installed PyLops using the developer environment you can also build the documentation locally by typing the following command:

make doc

Once the documentation is created, you can make any change to the source code and rebuild the documentation by simply typing

make docupdate

Note that if a new example or tutorial is created (and if any change is made to a previously available example or tutorial) you are required to rebuild the entire documentation before your changes will be visible.

History

PyLops-Distributed was initially written and it is currently maintained by Equinor. It is an extension of PyLops for large-scale optimization with distributed linear operators that can be tailored to our needs, and as contribution to the free software community.

Contributors

• Matteo Ravasi, mrava87