Hi, I am in trying to get a new Linux Cluster. I am thinking about putting R on it. Does anyone have any experience with running R on a distributed Linux Cluster? Or does R support a cluster environment at all. Any pitfall I should really watch out for? Thanks in advance Apollo
As far as I know, there are R interfaces to MPI and PVM. There are also the `snow' and `snowFT' packages on CRAN. -roger apollo wong wrote:> Hi, I am in trying to get a new Linux Cluster. I am > thinking about putting R on it. Does anyone have any > experience with running R on a distributed Linux > Cluster? Or does R support a cluster environment at > all. Any pitfall I should really watch out for? > Thanks in advance > Apollo > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Roger D. Peng http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/
I've used an openMosix cluster to load balance simultaneously running R scripts. For the most part this has worked as expected, but sometimes the R processes don't migrate. Recently, I converted one of my analyses to utilize the SNOW package (using PVM on top of openMosix). I've been quite pleased with the results and plan to use SNOW for other projects in the future. + seth
We use R on a Linux/openMosix cluster and it works very well. Reid Huntsinger -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of apollo wong Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:48 AM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] question about R on Linux Cluster Hi, I am in trying to get a new Linux Cluster. I am thinking about putting R on it. Does anyone have any experience with running R on a distributed Linux Cluster? Or does R support a cluster environment at all. Any pitfall I should really watch out for? Thanks in advance Apollo ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html