Out-of-core preprocessing (qc/normalize/log1p/hvg/pca) with deterministic parallelism

.gitignore

@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ _build/*
 .fleet
 .zed
 .ipynb_checkpoints/
+.venv-dask/

Cargo.toml

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ polars = { version = "0.51", features = [
     "pivot"
 ] }
 ndarray = { version = "0.16", features = ["rayon"] }
+rayon = "1"
 nalgebra-sparse = "0.11.0"
 anyhow = "1.0.86"
 log = "0.4.27"

demo/OOC_BENCHMARK.md

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+# Out-of-core preprocessing — memory vs scanpy
+
+> **Tier-1 OOC pipeline is complete.** All of QC, `normalize_total`, `log1p`, a fused
+> `preprocess`, highly variable genes (Seurat), and PCA run disk-backed in bounded memory, exposed
+> as `sr_ooc <cmd>` and `sr.pp.*` (drop-in for `sc.pp.*`). Each step is unit-tested against its
+> in-memory / dense counterpart: log1p & normalize match scanpy's X exactly; QC matches
+> (totals/mito/top-N/var); HVG selects the **same** genes as SingleRust's in-memory HVG; PCA
+> matches a dense covariance-PCA reference (variance ratios exact, embedding norms match, up to
+> per-component sign). End-to-end vs scanpy, the PCA *spectrum* tracks scanpy but the exact axes
+> differ because SingleRust's Seurat HVG picks a different gene set than scanpy's (a pre-existing
+> in-memory difference, not introduced by the OOC path).
+
+The benchmark below covers the QC + normalize_total + log1p portion.
+
+## Deterministic parallelism
+
+The compute-bound passes — QC accumulation, HVG sum/sum-of-squares, and PCA's gene×gene Gram
+matrix — are parallelized with rayon. Naive parallel floating-point reduction is **not**
+reproducible (FP addition isn't associative and rayon's work-stealing varies the summation order),
+so all reductions use a **fixed-block, ordered-merge** scheme (`backed::processing::det`): rows are
+cut into fixed-size blocks at fixed indices, each block is folded sequentially, and partials are
+merged in block order. The partition and merge order depend only on the data size and a constant
+block size — never on thread count or scheduling — so results are bit-identical on every run.
+
+Verified two ways:
+- **Unit tests** run QC / HVG / preprocess / PCA under rayon pools of 1 vs 8 threads and assert
+  bit-identical metrics, masks, embeddings, and variance ratios.
+- **At scale (50k cells, real data):** the full pipeline (`preprocess → hvg → pca`) run with
+  `RAYON_NUM_THREADS=1` vs `=18` produced **bit-identical** X, obs QC columns, var HVG columns,
+  `obsm["X_pca"]`, and `uns` variance ratios.
+
+(The cheap elementwise transforms — normalize/log1p — have no cross-row reduction and are
+deterministic by construction; PCA projection is per-cell independent, also order-free.)
+
+
+Same work in both lanes (QC + `normalize_total(1e4)` + `log1p`) on the same `.h5ad`, each run as
+a subprocess under `/usr/bin/time -l` to capture **peak RSS** and wall time.
+
+```bash
+cargo build --release --example sr_ooc
+python demo/bench_ooc.py data/bench_input_500k.h5ad 20000
+```
+
+## Result (500,000 cells × 48,788 genes, 48 GB / 18-core)
+
+| lane | time | peak RSS |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| scanpy in-memory  | 13.5 s (compute) | 13.6 GB |
+| scanpy + Dask OOC | 35.4 s (compute) | 14.5 GB |
+| **SingleRust OOC (fused)** | 45.0 s (wall, incl. I/O) | **2.5 GB** |
+
+**SingleRust OOC uses ~5.4× less peak memory than scanpy in-memory and ~5.8× less than
+scanpy+Dask**, and that footprint is chunk-bounded — it stays roughly flat as the cell count
+grows, whereas scanpy in-memory scales linearly and eventually OOMs (≈46 GB at 2M cells, over a
+48 GB machine). That is the point of out-of-core: process data that does not fit in RAM.
+
+The standout finding is the **Dask lane**: its sparse out-of-core path gives essentially **no
+memory benefit** — peak RSS lands at/above scanpy in-memory (it has measured 7.5–14.5 GB across
+runs, i.e. ≥ in-memory) while still costing 2.6× the runtime. This is exactly the Dask-sparse
+immaturity scanpy's own issues describe. Native Rust streaming is the only lane with truly bounded
+memory (2.5 GB).
+
+The SingleRust lane is a **single fused command** (`sr_ooc preprocess` = QC + normalize_total +
+log1p in one job; the per-cell total computed for QC is reused as the normalization row-sum, so
+it's computed once). Fusing cut its wall time from 128 s (three separate ops + a working copy) to
+45 s — now in the same ballpark as Dask on time, at ~1/6th the memory.
+
+### Caveats / honest reading
+
+- **Time is not apples-to-apples.** scanpy's number is compute-only (excludes its initial load);
+  the Dask lane includes a lazy read + chunked write-out; SingleRust's wall time includes a 6 GB
+  working-copy plus two full read/write passes to disk as *separate* CLI processes. A fused
+  single-pass pipeline (+ chunk-size tuning, parallel chunk processing) would cut SingleRust's time
+  substantially. **Peak RSS is the fair, durable signal** and it is immune to thermal/throttling.
+- SingleRust OOC RSS includes one chunk (here 20k rows) plus small per-cell / per-gene
+  accumulators; smaller chunks lower it further.
+- Both scanpy lanes are run with the newer `.venv-dask` stack (anndata 0.12, scanpy 1.12, dask)
+  for consistency; SingleRust is the `sr_ooc` release binary.
+
+### Projection to 2M cells (not run — memory safety)
+
+At ~2M cells the count matrix is ≈46 GB dense-equivalent; scanpy in-memory would exceed the 48 GB
+machine (OOM/heavy swap), and the Dask lane's ~0.6× memory ratio still lands near the ceiling.
+SingleRust OOC stays ~2 GB (chunk-bounded) and is the only lane that completes comfortably. We
+did **not** run 2M here to avoid destabilizing the machine; it needs a ~32 GB base dataset and a
+box with headroom.
+
+## Reproducing the Dask lane
+
+The Dask lane needs `anndata>=0.11` (`experimental.read_elem_lazy`) + dask + xarray, which require
+Python ≥3.10 — kept in an isolated venv so the main 3.9 demo env is untouched:
+
+```bash
+python3.12 -m venv .venv-dask
+. .venv-dask/bin/activate
+pip install "anndata>=0.11" "scanpy>=1.11" "dask[array]" xarray hdf5plugin h5py scipy numpy
+```
+
+`bench_ooc.py` auto-uses `.venv-dask/bin/python` for both scanpy lanes (override with `SR_PY`).
+Relevant scanpy issues: [#4095](https://github.com/scverse/scanpy/issues/4095),
+[dask#11880](https://github.com/dask/dask/issues/11880),
+[pydata/sparse#860](https://github.com/pydata/sparse/issues/860).

demo/_scanpy_dask_pp.py

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+"""scanpy OUT-OF-CORE via Dask: read only X lazily as a dask array (obs/var eager + small), run
+dask-enabled normalize_total + log1p (and attempt qc), then stream the result to disk to force
+chunked execution.
+
+Requires anndata>=0.11 + dask + xarray. Run with the isolated .venv-dask. Prints
+STEP_SECONDS=<compute wall> and QC_DASK=ok|err:<msg>. Peak RSS is captured by the caller via
+/usr/bin/time -l; if Dask's sparse path densifies/materializes, RSS spikes — itself the finding.
+
+    python demo/_scanpy_dask_pp.py <file.h5ad> [chunk_rows]
+"""
+import sys
+import time
+import tempfile
+import os
+
+import hdf5plugin  # noqa: F401
+import h5py
+import anndata as ad
+import scanpy as sc
+from anndata.experimental import read_elem_lazy
+from anndata.io import read_elem
+
+
+def main():
+    path = sys.argv[1]
+    chunk = int(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else 20000
+
+    # Keep the file open for the whole run — the lazy dask array reads from it on compute.
+    f = h5py.File(path, "r")
+    try:
+        X = read_elem_lazy(f["X"], chunks=(chunk, -1))  # dask array, streamed in row blocks
+        obs = read_elem(f["obs"])                       # eager, small
+        var = read_elem(f["var"])
+        adata = ad.AnnData(X=X, obs=obs, var=var)
+
+        t = time.perf_counter()
+
+        qc_status = "ok"
+        try:
+            adata.var["mito"] = adata.var_names.str.upper().str.startswith("MT-")
+            sc.pp.calculate_qc_metrics(
+                adata, qc_vars=["mito"], percent_top=[50, 100, 200, 500], log1p=True, inplace=True
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            qc_status = f"err:{type(e).__name__}:{str(e)[:120]}"
+
+        sc.pp.normalize_total(adata, target_sum=1e4)
+        sc.pp.log1p(adata)
+
+        # Force streaming execution by writing the transformed X out (chunked).
+        out = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".h5ad", delete=False).name
+        try:
+            adata.write_h5ad(out)
+        finally:
+            if os.path.exists(out):
+                os.remove(out)
+
+        print(f"STEP_SECONDS={time.perf_counter() - t}")
+        print(f"QC_DASK={qc_status}")
+    finally:
+        f.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

demo/_scanpy_inmem_pp.py

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+"""scanpy IN-MEMORY qc + normalize_total + log1p on an .h5ad (loads the whole matrix).
+
+Used by the OOC benchmark as the baseline lane. Prints STEP_SECONDS=<total compute>.
+Peak RSS (captured by the caller via /usr/bin/time -l) scales with the dataset — that's the
+point of the comparison against SingleRust's bounded-memory OOC lane.
+"""
+import sys
+import time
+
+import hdf5plugin  # noqa: F401
+import scanpy as sc
+import anndata as ad
+
+
+def main():
+    path = sys.argv[1]
+    adata = ad.read_h5ad(path)  # full load into memory
+    adata.var["mito"] = adata.var_names.str.upper().str.startswith("MT-")
+    t = time.perf_counter()
+    sc.pp.calculate_qc_metrics(
+        adata, qc_vars=["mito"], percent_top=[50, 100, 200, 500], log1p=True, inplace=True
+    )
+    sc.pp.normalize_total(adata, target_sum=1e4)
+    sc.pp.log1p(adata)
+    print(f"STEP_SECONDS={time.perf_counter() - t}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

demo/bench_ooc.py

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+"""Out-of-core memory benchmark: scanpy in-memory vs SingleRust OOC.
+
+Same work in both lanes — QC + normalize_total(1e4) + log1p — on the same .h5ad. Each lane runs
+as a subprocess under /usr/bin/time -l so we capture **peak RSS** (the headline) and compute time:
+
+  * scanpy in-memory : loads the whole matrix; peak RSS scales with the dataset.
+  * SingleRust OOC   : streams the file in chunks; peak RSS stays ~bounded.
+
+Usage:
+    python demo/bench_ooc.py <file.h5ad> [chunk_size]
+
+(A scanpy+Dask out-of-core lane needs anndata>=0.11's read_elem_as_dask; see notes in the
+performance roadmap. This harness leaves a hook for it.)
+"""
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import pathlib
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+BIN = ROOT / "target" / "release" / "examples" / "sr_ooc"
+ENV = dict(os.environ)
+ENV["PATH"] = "/opt/homebrew/bin:" + str(pathlib.Path.home() / ".cargo" / "bin") + ":" + ENV.get("PATH", "")
+ENV.setdefault("HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING", "FALSE")
+
+# Python with the newer stack (anndata>=0.11 + dask) for both scanpy lanes; override with SR_PY.
+PY = os.environ.get("SR_PY", str(ROOT / ".venv-dask" / "bin" / "python"))
+
+
+def run_timed(cmd):
+    """Run under /usr/bin/time -l; return (compute_seconds|None, peak_rss_gb)."""
+    p = subprocess.run(["/usr/bin/time", "-l", *cmd], cwd=ROOT, env=ENV, capture_output=True, text=True)
+    if p.returncode:
+        sys.stderr.write(p.stdout[-1000:] + "\n" + p.stderr[-2000:] + "\n")
+        raise RuntimeError(f"failed: {' '.join(map(str, cmd))}")
+    secs = None
+    for line in p.stdout.splitlines():
+        if line.startswith("STEP_SECONDS="):
+            secs = float(line.split("=", 1)[1])
+    m = re.search(r"(\d+)\s+maximum resident set size", p.stderr)
+    rss_gb = int(m.group(1)) / 1e9 if m else float("nan")  # macOS: bytes
+    w = re.search(r"([\d.]+)\s+real", p.stderr)  # wall time from /usr/bin/time -l
+    wall = float(w.group(1)) if w else float("nan")
+    return secs if secs is not None else wall, rss_gb
+
+
+def scanpy_inmem(path):
+    return run_timed([PY, str(ROOT / "demo" / "_scanpy_inmem_pp.py"), str(path)])
+
+
+def scanpy_dask(path, chunk):
+    args = [PY, str(ROOT / "demo" / "_scanpy_dask_pp.py"), str(path)]
+    if chunk:
+        args.append(str(chunk))
+    return run_timed(args)
+
+
+def singlerust_ooc(path, chunk):
+    # Single fused pass (qc + normalize_total + log1p), reading source -> temp output. No 6 GB
+    # copy and one process, so wall time and peak RSS are a single clean /usr/bin/time -l measure.
+    out = path.with_suffix(".ooc_out.h5ad")
+    chunk_args = ["--chunk", str(chunk)] if chunk else []
+    t, r = run_timed([str(BIN), "preprocess", str(path), "--out", str(out),
+                      "--target-sum", "10000.0", *chunk_args])
+    out.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+    return t, r
+
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        print("usage: python demo/bench_ooc.py <file.h5ad> [chunk_size]")
+        sys.exit(2)
+    path = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1])
+    chunk = int(sys.argv[2]) if len(sys.argv) > 2 else None
+    if not BIN.exists():
+        raise SystemExit(f"build the CLI first: cargo build --release --example sr_ooc  ({BIN} missing)")
+
+    import h5py
+    with h5py.File(path) as f:
+        shape = list(f["X"].attrs.get("shape", []))
+    print(f"dataset: {path.name}  shape={shape}  chunk={chunk or 'default'}\n")
+
+    s_t, s_rss = scanpy_inmem(path)
+    print(f"scanpy in-memory : {s_t:7.2f}s compute | peak RSS {s_rss:6.2f} GB")
+
+    if pathlib.Path(PY).exists():
+        try:
+            d_t, d_rss = scanpy_dask(path, chunk)
+            print(f"scanpy + Dask OOC: {d_t:7.2f}s compute | peak RSS {d_rss:6.2f} GB")
+        except Exception as e:
+            d_rss = None
+            print(f"scanpy + Dask OOC: FAILED ({e})")
+    else:
+        d_rss = None
+        print(f"scanpy + Dask OOC: skipped (no {PY}; create .venv-dask with anndata>=0.11 + dask)")
+
+    r_t, r_rss = singlerust_ooc(path, chunk)
+    print(f"SingleRust OOC   : {r_t:7.2f}s wall    | peak RSS {r_rss:6.2f} GB")
+
+    print()
+    if s_rss and r_rss:
+        print(f"memory: SingleRust OOC uses {s_rss / r_rss:.1f}× less peak RAM than scanpy in-memory")
+    if d_rss and r_rss:
+        print(f"memory: SingleRust OOC uses {d_rss / r_rss:.1f}× less peak RAM than scanpy+Dask "
+              f"(Dask's sparse path barely beats in-memory)")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()