# FFTW with @parallel seg faults

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fftw-with-parallel-seg-faults/10590>\
**Category:** Julia at Scale\
**Tags:** fftw\
**Created:** [April 28, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fftw-with-parallel-seg-faults/10590 "2018-04-28T12:46:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fftw-with-parallel-seg-faults/10590/2 "2018-04-28T17:56:42Z")

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You have to create the plan on every worker; there’s no way to send an FFTW plan over the network.

(Would be better if this gave a sensible error rather than segfaulting. Maybe if it threw an error during serialization, or serialized to an object that threw an error?)

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