# SharedDict for multiple processes?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shareddict-for-multiple-processes/17447>\
**Category:** Julia at Scale\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shareddict-for-multiple-processes/17447 "2018-11-12T19:47:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![e3c6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shareddict-for-multiple-processes/17447/1 "2018-11-12T19:47:22Z")

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I am doing a bunch of distributed long calculations and I want to write results to a Dict.  
Is there a way for multiple Julia processes to share a Dict (with write access)?  
I don’t care if writing to the Dict in this way is slow, because the bottleneck here is the calculations. Writing to a Dict is just a convenient step after each calculation.

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**Author:** ![Jon\_Norberg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jon_norberg/32/3218_2.png) [@Jon\_Norberg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jon_Norberg)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/shareddict-for-multiple-processes/17447/2 "2018-11-12T20:08:56Z")

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This is an old 0.6 version and unmaintained but with just a little tweak you can use it between processes

> <https://github.com/JuliaAttic/Examples/blob/master/dictchannel.jl>