Dynare parallel PsTools administrator rights

Installation and Setup
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Dear colleagues,

I would like to utilize parallel computing with Dynare but our IT team insists that PsTools is restricted to administrators only. In this regard, I would appreciate any - and especially positive - experience with this issue. Maybe some of our central bank (e.g. @MichelJuillard) or Commission (e.g. @rattoma) colleagues may know about work-arounds.

Ginters

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Hi @gin ,
if you need to run parallel on a local machine, the easiest workaround is to use the option parallel_use_psexec=false when calling dynare.
If you need to instantiate parallel threads on remote machines, then you need to use either psexec or ssh.

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Thanks, Marco,
Dynare v5.4. masterParallel.m is ignoring option parallel_use_psexec=false, rather referring to option parallel_info.use_psexec. Setting options_.parallel_info.use_psexec=0; in a mod-file is doing the job.

Thanks again.

Ginters

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Thanks for pointing this out. You can track the bug at parallel_use_psexec: use correct field (!75) · Merge requests · Dynare / preprocessor · GitLab