How to create SharedArrays on other workers

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Should a view of a SharedArray be also shared between workers?

Consider the following simple example, where we try to fill a view of a SharedArray on a worker (I’ve tested it on julia 1.1.0): using Distributed w = addprocs(1)[] using SharedArrays function idid!(v) for i=1:length(v) v[i] = i end end sha = SharedArray{Float64}(10) shav = @view sha[1:5] @spawnat w idid!(shav) sha The result that we get is: sha 10-element SharedArray{Float64,1}: 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 As we see, nothing happens, which impli…