Status of Distributed / DistributedNext

[ufechner7]

DistributedNext.jl has the version number 1.0 since the beginning of the year.

There have been some improvements to Distributed, too, but they are not yet merged into DistributedNext.jl (see: Distributed fixes by JamesWrigley · Pull Request #25 · JuliaParallel/DistributedNext.jl · GitHub )

I tried both on two computers. My observations:

• on my laptop (Ubuntu 24.04), the function addprocs(1) is much faster when using DistributedNext compared to Distributed, like 2s instead of 3.4s
• on my desktop (Ubuntu 22.04) DistributedNext does not work, see: addprocs(1) fails when some ethernet interfaces report the speed and others not · Issue #28 · JuliaParallel/DistributedNext.jl · GitHub (the reason was already found )

Where will the development take place in the near future?

[drandran12]

I guess the end goal of distributednext would be to replace distributed, no? I think distributednext was made to make it easier to have the changes on every Julia release. Instead, of waiting until the next Julia release. But not sure. Would also be interested in more concrete information.

Maybe you can tag this post to notify the right people to answer this.