Parallel fread() and data.table update Bay Area R User Group Meetup 11 April 2017, Google Matt Dowle H2O.ai Machine Intelligence
Overview data.table::fread() is now parallel and available in dev; please test and report problems. Highlights from recent versions
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Try dev 1.10.5 install.packages("data.table", type = "source", repos = "http://Rdatatable.github.io/data.table") Windows binary on AppVeyor. See Installation.
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Not new. Prior art.
h2o.importFile
3 years
spark-csv
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Python’s Paratext
1 year
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verbose=TRUE 44GB 872k rows x 12,875 columns
10,000 row sample at 100 jump points m & sd sample => nrow estimate
Reads straight from file to final result via tiny buffers in a single pass. If any out-of-sample type exceptions, just those columns auto reread H2O.ai Machine Intelligence
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data.table::fwrite so fast that it was deemed on par with binary and included Should now be faster
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Beware of cache when benchmarking First timing longest (OS reads from device) free -g (OS cached file in RAM) sudo sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' Aside: HD has cache too (burst vs sustained)
sudo lshw -class disk sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda HD 150MB/s ; SSD 800MB/s ; NVMe 3GB/s H2O.ai Machine Intelligence
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R CMD INSTALL ~/data.table_1.10.4.tar.gz # CRAN perfbar & htop system.time(fread("~/X3e8_2c.csv",verbose=TRUE))
# 5.6GB file
# 27s first time, 23s second time. # Awful! CPU not IO bound.
R CMD INSTALL ~/data.table_1.10.5.tar.gz # dev system.time(fread("~/X3e8_2c.csv",verbose=TRUE)) # 7s first time (5.6GB file size / 800MB/s SSD speed == 7s) # 3.5s second time free -g system("sudo sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'") free -g system.time(fread("~/X3e8_2c.csv",verbose=TRUE)) # 7s first time, 3.5s second time
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Arun’s update, Jan 2017 Amsterdam
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Highlights Already on CRAN : No longer need with=FALSE setkey() partially parallel keyby= much faster than by=
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