{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rqtl/qtl2geno/issues/7","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rqtl/qtl2geno/issues/7/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rqtl/qtl2geno/issues/7/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rqtl/qtl2geno/issues/7/events","html_url":"https://github.com/rqtl/qtl2geno/issues/7","id":83862698,"number":7,"title":"Enhance treatment of parallel analysis to facility multi-node clusters","user":{"login":"kbroman","id":53972,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/53972?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman","html_url":"https://github.com/kbroman","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kbroman/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rqtl/qtl2geno/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-06-02T06:09:13Z","updated_at":"2015-06-02T06:09:13Z","closed_at":null,"body":"@simecek had asked that the parallel processing code be revised to make it easier to use multi-node clusters.\r\n\r\nI think what he wants is to be able to first run `parallel::makeCluster` and then pass the set of clusters to a function.\r\n\r\nMaybe the `n_cores` argument in functions like `calc_genoprob` and `est_map` could be called `cores` and either be an integer (in which case it is interpreted now: the desired number of cores) or be the result of `makeCluster`."}}