JuliaLang/Distributed.jl

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Create and control multiple Julia processes remotely for distributed computing. Ships as a Julia stdlib.

Stars: 55
Forks: 19
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 90

Dominant language: Julia
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 12, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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90 open issues indexed

test deadline in #124 is too quick (10 seconds) for busy machine? Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#199 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
`Worker(...)` constructors might not always return an object of type `Worker`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#182 · Opened Feb 21, 2026
World age problems when using @everywhere in a function Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#156 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2025
Slow load time Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#147 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Add timeout parameter to addprocs function Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#139 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2025
printing of worker information not correct Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#138 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2025
addprocs on EC2 and GCP instances does not work with tunnel=false, which prevents communication between two processes respectively instantiated on EC2 and GCP. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#133 · Opened Feb 6, 2025
Test failed when running with MMTk Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#132 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2025
Move away from using sticky tasks to avoid races (`@async` -> `@spawn`) Open

enhancement multithreading

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#126 · Opened Jan 26, 2025
Handle multiple workers added on a node with the bind port specified Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#119 · Opened Jan 6, 2025
CI failure when testing sending arrays Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#114 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 11, 2024
Failure when run inside module Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#105 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2024
RFC: Make addprocs() safe for reuse (i.e. doesn't request more processes if re-called) (with PR) Open

enhancement minor change

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#77 · Opened Feb 11, 2024
do not lock up addprocs on worker setup errors (with PR) Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#61 · Opened Feb 11, 2024
add RemoteLogger for distributed logging (with PR code) Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#52 · Opened Feb 10, 2024
Use a custom hashing function for remotecall_fetch to mitigate #48 (with PR). Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#50 · Opened Feb 10, 2024
RFC: "for-loop" compliant @parallel for.... take 3 (with PR) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#39 · Opened Feb 10, 2024
improve pmap code for arrays, with type/shape of result the same as map (with PR) Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#33 · Opened Feb 10, 2024
Unexpected remotecall_fetch behavior Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#197 · Opened Jan 18, 2024
Underministic behavior of `addprocs()` of `SSHManager` Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#8 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2023
Distributed.jl - possibility to use other Serialization libraries? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#1 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 10, 2023
Dynamic @distributed scheduling Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#45 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2023
[Distributed.jl] inconsistent serialization of closures over global vars Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#90 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2023
Can we have `bind(::RemoteChannel, ::Process)`? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#88 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2023
`isready(::AbstractWorkerPool)` is inconsistent with whether `take!` will block Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#87 · Opened Jan 12, 2023
Distributed worker manager doesn't use socket connection to infer worker ip Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#85 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2022
Allow @everywhere include(...) to override default path behavior Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#84 · Opened Sep 13, 2022
Could `@everywhere` support using macros from packages that are loaded in the same block? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#83 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2022
Distributed.jl should verify Julia version between primary-worker Open

good first issue help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#49 · 8 comments · Opened May 18, 2022
Connection refused when trying to connect to Distributed worker Open

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#136 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened May 10, 2022
Loading/precompiling packages requires them to be available on Distributed workers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#80 · Opened Apr 14, 2022
Type inference fails for `@distributed for` but not for `mapreduce` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#160 · Opened Mar 11, 2022
`pmap`'s `on_error` and `retry_delays` work differently if a worker exits Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#159 · Opened Mar 5, 2022
Use `ExceptionStack` instead of `CapturedException` for Distributed and `asyncmap` Open

help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#79 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 8, 2022
[Distributed] Worker connection errors (peer x not connected to y) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#151 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 1, 2022
[Distributed] `Future`s not being cleaned up fast enough bring the execution to a stop/huge slowdown due to GC livelocks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#196 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 8, 2021
`@everywhere` running `using` and `imports` first means you can't do `using Pkg; Pkg.activate(".")` first before `using MyPkg` for local `MyPkg` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#195 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2021
Possible bug when using both processes and threads, and dynamic remote channels between them Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#78 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2021
Workers on cluster terminating Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#149 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 12, 2021
Machine file example in documentation Open

documentation

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#75 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2021
access to undefined reference in Distributed tests Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#16 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 10, 2021
`remote_do` won't print exception to `stderr` when running a function on the master process Open

error handling

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#74 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2021
intermittent warnings of forcibly interrupting busy workers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#70 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2020
Calling pmap within threads hangs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#69 · Opened Jun 8, 2020
need precompile statements re-enabled for `addprocs` (with PR) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#71 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2020
global constant not automatically transferred along with function call Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#68 · Opened Apr 4, 2020
feature request: @distributed_threads and pmap_threads Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#67 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 8, 2020
`@distributed` fails silently when lacking `@sync` or reduction Open

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JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#66 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 1, 2019
Surprising and undocumented `import` handling in `Distributed.@everywhere` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#65 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 11, 2019
Distributed docs are a bit contradictory as to if it loads packages you are `using` on the manager process Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

JuliaLang/Distributed.jl#64 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 30, 2019

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